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Origin Stories: Esquire’s Chris Jones

Posted in Tangents, tagged , , on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve written before about my habit of digging up the “origin stories” of writers I admire. This weekend, while procrastinating on a story rewrite that’s due on Monday, I fell down the internet rabbit hole (it started with a Twitter reference to a writer-on-writer feud, detoured through a bizarre story about a person in a [...]

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Jon Krakauer: ‘I Wanted to Pay the Fucking Bills’

Posted in Tangents, tagged , , on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Thanks to Matador Nights co-editor Kristin Conard, who posted this interview with Jon Krakauer in the comments of my Origin Stories post. Here’s Krakauer on his early writing efforts: I knew that you couldn’t make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to [...]

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Origin Stories

Posted in Tangents, tagged , on December 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m a sucker for a great essay about how the author “got his start” as a writer. Jeffrey Tayler told his origin story (to borrow a phrase from the world of comics) earlier this year on World Hum — Inspiration, Travel Writing and L’Esprit Frondeur — and one of my [...]

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Wise Words from Jeffrey Tayler

Posted in Tangents, tagged , , on March 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »

I wanted to draw attention, briefly, to this essay we published at World Hum last week: Inspiration, Travel Writing and L’Esprit Frondeur. It’s by Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Tayler, and it’s about how he became a writer. I always get a kick out reading the “how I got started” stories of writers I admire, but I [...]

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