CSPAN2 2011 Tucson Festival Of The Book March 14, 2011
whatever. you find yourself 18 years old then. i grew up in a small new hampshire town and always wanted to get out of the town. i wanted to hit the big city. i was always writing. at 18i think i understood that there was only one subject about which i was fully equipped to right, and that was my own life. so i began writing young as my ticket out of new hampshire. what proved to be my one and only a year of college. i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that t...
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