Episode 455: Lawrence Wright
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How Did You Come to Be a Journalist?
i wanted to be a creative writer, and i hadn't decided how that was going to manifest itself. When i came back from cairo after two years, i sat down and wrotea article for the new yorker called letter from cairo. And of course, i had not informed theNew York Times of my intentions. I sent the article, and i was in a lake house in clitman, texas, and there was an r f d mail box with a little red flag that yo. It seemed that my contribution to the newyorker was picked up at the rf d mail box in equipment texas, went to new york, was rejected and
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