Remembering Roger Angell, and Fishing with Karen Chee

About this episode

<p><span>Roger Angell, who died last week, at the age of 101, was inducted in 2014 into the Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishment as a baseball writer. But in a career at </span><i><span>The New Yorker</span></i><span> that goes back to the Second World War, he wrote on practically every subject under the sun; he also served as fiction editor, taking the post once held by his mother, Katharine White.  Angell “did as much to distinguish </span><i><span>The New Yorker</span></i><span> as anyone in the magazine’s nearly century-long history,” David Remnick wrote </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-roger-angell-hall-of-famer"><span>in a remembrance</span></a><span> last week. “His prose and his editorial judgment left an imprint that’s hard to overstate.”  In 2015, Remnick sat down for a long interview with Angell about his career, and particularly his masterful late essays—collected in “This Old Man: All in Pieces”—on aging, loss, and finding new love. </span></p> <p><span>Plus, we join the comedian—a writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “Pachinko,” and a <i><span>New Yorker</span></i><span> contributor—on her favorite kind of outing: a fishing trip that doesn’t yield any fish.</span></span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>