The first impulse was to tell my story. The next thing was, you don't know how to do it. So that was the impulse to go to graduate school and to learn. I think people just think if you have a story, then of course you can write a book. And yes, you probably can, but it don't, won't necessarily be good.
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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