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“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
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«THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER», DI JANET MALCOLM
Emmanuel Carrère • Propizio è avere ove recarsi (Opere di Emmanuel Carrère Vol. 7) (Italian Edition)
She became a reporter: she went to see people, talked to them, recorded what they said, and then skilfully composed the story which reflected the knowledge she had gained. This method lay behind her book, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, published in 1981, in which, over several conversations with one particular analyst, she drew out the
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In our society, the journalist ranks with the philanthropist as a person who has something extremely valuable to dispense (his currency is the strangely intoxicating substance called publicity), and who is consequently treated with a deference quite out of proportion to his merits as a person. There are very few people in this country who do not
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"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Didion, Joan. "Introduction".
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substack.com
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The Hedgehog Review
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