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Susan Orlean

The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn

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The Basic Principle of Improved Journalism, Isn't It?

i'm sure that must be what improvise like. You're on the stage, you're given a banana, and you're told, ok, come up with the scene. And you think, think, fast. This happens to me. That is the guiding principle of the majority of my work. Most of the stories that i do end up not being at all what i thought they were going to be. I take that as a good sign. They i go into it thinking, well, i'm going to find out about about x. But actually, if i'm really open and ing and really paying attention, the real story emerges. The one that i couldn't have anticipated.

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