How Did Your First Big Break Come?

"i'm again feeling a little bit like i owe you an apology, because, you know, nine years at elle weekly, that's a big deal," he says. "My first big break in grad school was going under cover in the underground needle exchanges That were going on in mc arthur park in los angeles." He also illustrates but has no illustration skills and used paper shopping bags to draw awards ceremony attendees as his entry into journalism.

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