Episode 467: Kelefa Sanneh
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Writing a Profile of a Person
When i moved to the new york times, one of the things i realized was that i wasn't writing about culture. I didn't feel the urge to like, grab someone out of that cultural world and write a piece. So i found myself writing about people that i thought were interesting in some way. And similarly, i found there was lots of,. especially music, that i loved that i didn't necessarily feel like i needed to profile - right? There's plenty of records where, like, i heard it and i was like, man, i love this record, but like, you don't need to love this record if this is not what you're into, like, it
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