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DMPL Podcast: Seven Questions with Adam Higginbotham

On the latest DMPL Podcast, AViD author Adam Higginbotham joins us for seven questions! Learn what stories shaped his writing styles, why he found himself at the very very top of the Empire State Building, and what his next book is going to be about.

Show Notes

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Midnight in Chernobyl
Books and stories discussed:
- M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories and Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- "Life at the Top," by Adam Higginbotham (The New Yorker, February 4, 2013)
- Naples '44, by Norman Lewis (GoodReads link)
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro
- How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith

Published on January 19, 2021
Last Modified February 24, 2026

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