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ON MUSK Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes

ON MUSK Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes

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As a teaser to our upcoming series The Builders-- which kicks off
with an interview with Elon Musk, we're re-airing our critically
acclaimed 2023 podcast On Musk, Walter Isaacson's
behind-the-scenes telling of writing the Elon Musk
biography. We hope you enjoy it!

Be a storyteller, not a preacher. That was novelist Walker
Percy’s legendary advice to a young Walter Isaacson. One he takes
to heart in his work as a journalist at Time and CNN, and as a
biographer of creative genius across the centuries—and in trying
to capture someone as volatile as Elon Musk. He reflects on the
challenges of holding the complexity of a character in his
mind—and the minds of readers—in the modern age, when everyone
just wants to know if the emerald mines were real.

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