Mitchell jackson: I have to figure out a way to carve space for the thing that i want to do. My thing is, like, can you write a novel of big scope? It's a challenge. The impact will work, not e like the other stuff. And hopefully, when conversation comes and i have more freedom to say no to herschel walker, by the way, el, he started talking crazy last year.
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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