"I didn't really have any big dreams, other than i thought i was going to get paid for playing basket ball somewhere," he says. "To imagine myself as a writer, imagine that i would be living in new york and somehow be writing for magazines." He never even went to office ars li how professor,. yes, masso, i out beyond. There was no more dream. It was just, ok, i know i don't want to work.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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