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Dana Goodyear

Dana Goodyear is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the host of the podcast “Lost Hills.”

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6 picks · 2005–2014

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Death Dust
a reporter at large ·

The valley-fever menace.

Drink Up
the world of business ·

The rise of really cheap wine.

Street Scene
letter from los angeles ·

Hollywood arrives on Skid Row.

The Searchers
annals of the west ·

Dana Goodyear on the isolated education offered at Deep Springs College.

Quiet Depravity
profiles ·

Dana Goodyear on Sarah Silverman's uncoventional comedy. “Silverman crosses boundaries that it would not occur to most people even to have. The more innocent and oblivious her delivery, the more outrageous her commentary becomes.”