When i decided to rihte, start writing residue, like, it was like a project that i wanted to complete. Then i figured out to complete thatro i actually had to learn how to write. I didn't really start reading until i was 25 years old. So now i got 25 years just to catch up to an adult reader who i'll never catch them. It's so when wo'e talkig about life, what's the structure? I don't have a hundred books that i can go wil, wat's the structure or this? Ir, whats the structure or that?
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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