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Jon Krakauer on the 25th Anniversary of ‘Into the Wild’

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The New Yorker's Missing Hiker

"I was really taken by the missing hiker. So I immediately got back to Mark and said, within a couple of days, I want to do this." "The more I looked into it, the more I sensed there's a real story here," he says. The New Yorker had tremendous advantages over outside: unlimited budgets under Tina Brown. 'They could crash it and do it fast'

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