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Jon Krakauer on the 25th Anniversary of ‘Into the Wild’

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How I Learned to Write for a Living

I would go back and read books by my favorite authors or articles. And when a passage really got me, I would reread over and over again to try to figure out what's going on. That's how I taught myself to write. He was motivated to become a writer because there was a huge recession in Colorado during the 1980s.

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