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Episode 531: David Grann

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How to Choose the Right Story for Your Life

When you're a non-fiction writer, you're an excavator. So choosing the right story is so important that I first came across this 18th century journal by John Byron. It was a digital copy that I found it online sent an archive and I started to read it. Then I realized like, okay, this really does have a clue to one of the more extraordinary sagas I had ever come across. That would have made an incredibly gripping story,. And also revealed something about the human condition.

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