The more specific and precise and honest you are about a thing that you think or feel or experience, the wider the resonance for some weird reason. "I just need to write the specifics of my lived experience," she says. 'That should be my guiding kind of like my North Star in terms of being a writer' The piece went mini viral after it was posted on her friend's blog.
Carvell Wallace is a podcast host and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Andre Iguodala, of The Sixth Man.“So much of my life experience coalesces into things that are useful… All those years that I was obsessing over this that or the other thing, all the weird stuff that I would do, all the weird things that happened to me, all the places I found myself in that I didn’t want to be in but were interesting - this is all part of what makes me the writer that I am today.”
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The Sixth Man: A Memoir (Blue Rider Press • 2019)
Episode One of Finding Fred
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Bradbury Press • 1970)
Purple Rain (1984)
The Karate Kid (Scholastic • 1984)
“The Two Lives of Michael Jackson” (New Yorker • 2015)
“How to Parent on a Night Like This” (Huffington Post • 2014)
Wallace's Pitchfork archive
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