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Pivot to Podcasting: A Q&A with Jess McHugh

From Layoff To Pulitzer: A Q&A With Investigative Reporter Yael Grauer

In May 2026, independent investigative reporter and longtime Study Hall member Yael Grauer, alongside a team of full-time reporters at the Associated Press, won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. “It was pretty surreal,” she said on the latest episode of the Study...

A Very Specific Period Piece: On "The Scoop" by Erin Van Der Meer

The Scoop by Erin Van Der Meer. Grand Central Publisher, 320 pages. 2026. The latest episode of Serial is playing in your wired earbuds. You just moved from Kips Bay to somewhere called East Williamsburg. You’ll try that new place Sweetgreen for lunch, sit down with the Gawker...

Andrea Javor Wrote An Essay About Her Best Friend Betraying Her

For Newsweek, Andrea Javor wrote about her experience being betrayed by a friend. Javor told Study Hall, "My best friend betrayed me many years ago and I knew it would be a compelling story. Newsweek has been publishing really personal and vulnerable essays and I wanted to write...

Mariella Rudi Interviewed Gadfly-Chef-Author Eddie Huang

For the Los Angeles Times, Mariella Rudi profiled the "Bao Badboy himself, Eddie Huang." They discussed "his fiction debut, parenthood and estrangement, L.A. vs NYC, the ghosts of Bourdain and Vice and lots more."

Jacob Russell Wrote About Becoming A Father In A War Zone

For the Paris Review, Jacob Russell wrote "a first person essay on navigating new fatherhood as war engulfed Lebanon." Russell writes, "During that first chapter of war in Beirut, Sharif was just a few months old. He had begun to eat solids, to smile, to swim along the floor on...