Episode 460: Mary Roach
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What Happened to You When You Wrote for Magazines?
"I wrote for magazines for about 15 years. Never the ones that, you know, the atlantic harpers or the new yorker, those always felt out of reach," she says. "And also, i think my style wasn't very well suited, and i'm not, i'm not enough reporter for those." Her future agent told her to take a look at which columns had the highest haird rights in salon dot com's on-line magazine. And he said, why don't you think about that as a book? He sold it 10 years later.
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