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

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John Crackhauer's Into the Wild was published 25 years ago this week. The book is about Christopher McCandless, a 24-year-old man who died of starvation in the Alaskan wilderness. In an interview with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker, Crackhauer talks about how he came to write the book.

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