i always want to do work where i feel a stake in it, a personal connection. A that michael be jordan piece, ironically, is the thing that led to the arbury piece. I'm not going to invest all this time into making a celebrity profile that no one really cares about, unless you make them care about this thing.
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.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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