Ben Greenman: What I Read
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How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts, and the literary world to hear their answers. This is drawn from an email exchange with Ben Greenman, New Yorker editor and author of the upcoming novel, The Slippage, among other books.
I think probably first I pick up the phone, to make sure that no one has called me overnight. That's how the bad calls would come, right? Overnight? Tragedy doesn't respect any schedule. It says so right on its business card. Then I wander out and check email and read some headlines on . Then I close all browsers and try to write. For a while I was experimenting with not even looking at headlines before I started to write, but I found
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