Katie Couric wanted to be a writer, but she never took a writing class in college. She worked as an assistant at Esquire typing manuscripts onto a 40 character line on an IBM Selectric. "I ended up marrying a Japanese American guy and spending a lot of time in Japan"
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
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