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The transformative moment of joining the New Yorker
The transformative moment in the speaker's life was when they joined the New Yorker in 1986 and were put to work writing the talk of the town/nTalk of the town was beautifully anonymous in those days/nPrior to this experience, the speaker had been a graduate student and had been trained to think and write argumentatively through butts/nThere is a difference between academia and improv, with the former being argumentative and the latter being collaborative