What Techniques Do You Use When You Can't See the Chair and the Dustnd?

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Aaron: It was a hard story to tell. A lot of the people i was talking to are, you know, intelligence agents and terrorists. And even though i may be forming judgments, i want to understand where they're coming from. So it's not just the province of novelists to be able to use those techniques. But the deal is, you have to research it ow. You have to have some assurance that is truerro.

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

”There’s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that’s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that’s a big job. It’s a great privilege.”

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