Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His novel, published in March 2024, is Great Expectations.

“I think the job is just paying a bunch of attention. If you're a person like me, where thoughts and worries are intruding on your consciousness all the time, it is a great relief to have something to just over-describe and over-pay-attention to—and kind of just give all of your latent, usually anxious attention to this one thing. That, to me, is a great joy.”

Show notes:

• @vcunningham


• vinson.nyc


• Cunningham on Longform


• Cunningham's New Yorker archive


• 04:00  "’The Suit’ at BAM" (Brooklyn Paper • Jan 2013)


• 04:00  "Label Maker: Edward Buchanan" (Nylon Guys • Mar 2015)


• 09:00  circlejerk.live
  


• 11:00  Jeremy O. Harris’ plays
  


• 11:00  "How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre?" (New Yorker • Oct 2020)


• 18:00  "The Season of Russell Westbrook and a New Era in N.B.A. Fandom" (New Yorker • Apr 2017)


• 25:00  Cunningham's McSweeney’s archive
  


• 25:00  "The Flies in Kehinde Wiley’s Milk" (The Awl • Jun 2015)


• 25:00  "Can Black Art Ever Escape the Politics of Race?" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2015)


• 25:00  "How Chris Jackson is Building a Black Literary Movement" (New York Times Magazine • Feb 2016)


• 27:00  "Stephon Marbury Has His Own Story to Tell" (New Yorker • Apr 2020)


• 28:00  "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers" (New Yorker • Jan 2018)


• 29:00  WTF with Marc Maron
  


• 32:00  "Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life into Comedy" (New Yorker • May 2019)


• 36:00  Redd Foxx party albums
  


• 38:00  Alexandra Schwartz’ New Yorker archive
  


• 41:00  Simon Parkin on Longform
  


• 41:00  Adrian Chen on Longform
  


• 42:00  "The Many Lives of Steven Yeun" (Jay Caspian Kang • New York Times Magazine • Feb 2021)

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