Episode 503: Evan Osnos
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How to Write a Great Story in China
The first story I did like could not be more in some ways been out but also as you'll see kind of enduring I suppose which is I wrote about the popularity of basketball in China it had just begun to take off. Another story came upon really sort of in the same way which is I was walking home and there was a crowd of people standing at the base of the building and I went up and I said what's going on and they said oh there's a there's a guy up there who's going to jump, so I looked up and I was like why is he going to jump? And everybody in the crowd had a different explanation for why he was threatening suicide.
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