One Perfect Story: Chris Jones on "The Things That Carried Him"
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The Economics of Stories Like This
"I don't know how you do it. It doesn't make sense because the staff writer, like the death of the staff writer," he says. "No one's running 17,000 words. I don't say they're running 15,000 words, 30,000 bucks." He adds that Esquire was selling an ad page for 75 grand and could justify spending quite a lot of money on the page next to it.
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