"I always say we mark time by our conversations. I will never be able to fully convey to you how completely nervous I was for that first interview," Nick Cannon says. "We've moved technologically speaking. We're in higher edge lawns now ... You've surpassed me anyway." 'My dream is just to talk next 24 hours a day,' he adds.
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.
“I became very haunted by the stories that [nations] don't tell. Nations and empires preserve their powers not only by the stories they tell, but also by the stories they leave out. … Early in my career, if I came across the silences in a story, I might not have highlighted them, because I thought, Well, there's nothing to tell there. And now I try to let the silences speak.”
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