One of my favorite parts about being a journalist — as I’m sure I’ve written about before — is going on a deep dive of someone’s work and then getting to ask them all the questions that came up for me as I did. This — spoiler — is exactly what I got to do with Ada Calhoun recently, and it was such a joy!
Ada — who has done everything from write five incredible books in the last decade, to collaborate on 30 major nonfiction books in her day job as a ghostwriter, to publish three Modern Love essays — was wonderfully candid about all of it. She answered questions about how she got started in media, which is truly the stuff of legends, where she finds inspiration for her books and the new writing genres she’s currently exploring. She also reminded us of this great James Salter quote that I’ll be thinking about for a while: “There are stories that one must tell, and years that one must tell them.” Buckle up for this master class in writing — it’s a perfect way to spend a little chunk of your Sunday.
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