Episode 472: Michael Schulman
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How to Write a New Yorker Profile
i think of a secret word, which is kind of a an overarching human theme that unifies the profile or gives it direction. I'll give some examples, like, if were holliotorius, it was imagination. For bobernam, i did approfi boburnam when he was doing eighth grade and the secret word was anxiety. So you may want to know whais a secret word for jeremy strong, and i'll tell you: wanting. Because here is someone who just has actually wanted this thing, al Pacino or daniel de leuis, since adolescence. And so i feel like that word only appeared in those quotes, but the structure
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