Slow Burn Creators & Guests

Noreen Malone is the features editor at New York magazine. She also appears regularly on Slate's DoubleX Gabfest and also co-host of the The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism.

Leon Neyfakh is an American journalist, radio host and author. He is known for hosting the podcast Slow Burn and his book The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up.

Susan E. Matthews is a science reporter. Currently, she is a News Director at Slate, where she hosted season 7 of the podcast "Slow Burn."Matthews received her Bachelor's degree in Environmental Stu

Josh Levin is a writer and the executive editor at Slate magazine and hosts the magazine's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.

Joel D. Anderson is a staff writer at Slate and the host of Seasons 3 and 6 of "Slow Burn."Previously, Anderson worked as a reporter on sports, culture, and politics for ESPN and BuzzFeed News.

Christina Cauterucci is a staff writer at Slate Magazine, editor of Where the Girls Go - a blog, and host of two Slate podcasts.

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Ha

Kevin Bendis is an audio engineer, musician, composer, and podcast producer. Currently, he produces podcasts for Slate Media. He also writes, records, and performs with the group Diary.

Christopher Johnson is a reporter for The Stakes, audio journalist, co-host of The Realness, and producer of the Slow Burn Podcast.

Sofie Kodner is a journalist and documentarian. Her interest is in reporting on the nexus of history, design, and culture.Kodner's work has appeared in 99% Invisible, WBUR, KQED, The Washington Post

Jean-Michel Frodon is a film critic at Slate.

Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer. He is known for his role as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), voicing Remy in the Pixar film

Alex Alonso is a filmmaker, geographer, sociologist, professor, legal consultant, host of Gangster Chronicles, and founder of StreetTV.net & StreetGangs.com.

Zev Yaroslavsky is a politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 to 1994 and on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1974 to 2014, when he retired from Los Angeles poli

Merritt Jacob is a sound designer, audio engineer, musician, and composer. Currently, he is the Senior Technical Director at Slate. He also freelances through his own recording company, M. Jacob Sound

Patrick Fort is an audio producer. Currently, he is a Senior Podcast Producer at Slate.

Joe Plourde is a sound designer, engineer, musician, and the Technical Director at WNYC Studios.He has worked on many podcasts for WNYC Studios, including: Scattered, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Come

Evan Chung is an audio producer. Currently, he is the Senior Producer of Slate’s podcast "One Year," for which he won the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio/Audio Documentary.Previously, Chung made