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This mid-level Vulture writer was thrilled to devour the book in one sitting.
Here are five pieces of advice that stuck out.
Turn every page.
Turn every goddamn page.
It was engraved in my mind.
He adds, perhaps a little dismissively, These werent lessons you learn in journalism school.
Dont be a portable journalist.
Hill Country people had a name for them: portable journalists.
They basically thought I was a portable journalist, too.
They ended up staying for three years, and it changed everything.
They started to talk to me in a different way, Caro writes.
Silence is the weapon.
Caro cant preach this loudly enough.
in my notebook, he said.
If anyone were ever to look through my notebooks, he would find a lot of SUs there.
The daily process.
I seldom have only one draft in longhand.
Id say I probably have three or four.
Then I do the same pages over in a typewriter.
When I started writing books, I switched to white legal-size typing paper.
you’ve got the option to get more words on a page that way.
I rewrite a lot.
Or no words in bang out left at all every one has been crossed out.
And often theres been so much writing and rewriting and erasing that the page is tossed out completely.
The two questions.
and, What did you hear?
Next time you chat with someone for a story, give it a try.
Ive had people get really angry at me.
But if you ask it often enough, sometimes youmakethemsee.
