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#47: Rebecca Mead, staff writer, the New Yorker

Always Take Notes

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The Power of Writing

I was fascinated by the kind of publication history of it and this standoff that you had with Bill Shaw, do you know about this? So when it's this huge book on Rowan Moses, so this guy who had enormous power in New York for a long time. But the manuscript was 750,000 words and Kara, and it went through this like brutal process of cuts but also, there was, Kara like went on strike because he said you're not changing. I'm interested now to maybe read those four 25,000 way excerpts that were New Yorkers.

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