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H.I. #109: Twitter War Room

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The Purple Prose of Interviews With Celebrities

Gregory Maguire: Many articles have the belief that you can't possibly be interested in this thing unless we conceptualize a person who's in the story to talk about first. He says when reading articles, it's like, just skip the first three and then maybe you'll get straight to the point. "I think of the tragedy of the millions of lost man hours reading the first two paragraphs of so many articles," he says.

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