Yen: I think they had a comfort with me that i was not trying to exploit my story. And so when we started chatting, it felt like i was talking to a friend, rather than i was interviewing some one. There's a couple of moments in which you say, basically, readers, people reading this, you break the fourth wall, essentially. Yen: It's a way of inviting them to kind of step outside of theirselves and analyze just the privilege that they have just by being able to run.
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.
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