The Atlantic has an interview up with reporter David Samuels discussing how we went about crafting his June 2007 profile of Condoleezza Rice. The amount of work that goes into these pieces is fascinating (a year, in this case — not surprising I suppose when you consider the lengths of The Atlantic articles).

I was lucky enough to meet David for a moment last year when he was working here in Tokyo. He was researching internet suicides amongst other things. In May of this year his piece Let's Die Together was released in The Atlantic. The calm and focus with which these young Japanese go about their anonymous group suicides is both fascinating and frightening.