David Grann

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!