In an exchange with @SydReviewBooks, @KateRossmanith considers the writer’s impulse (or pressure) to insert themselves into the text. She argues that many of the problems stem from how we are primed to conceptualize human experience as “episodic.” buff.ly/3sVwmn8

“The New Yorker voice is on top of the material under discussion. It is a voice of intelligent curiosity. The voice is smart-sounding.” “It is effective for long-form journalism,” writes @KateRossmanith, “but it was not the book I was trying to write." buff.ly/39WLxCC