NELLIE BLY’S LESSONS IN WRITING WHAT YOU WANT TO

 There are certain nonfiction writers—often critics, sometimes journalists—whose particular talents and tastes seem especially well matched to their era. One thinks of George Orwell, intellectually and morally lucid just when the world needed someone to be; Joan Didion, naturally paranoid, primed to sense and to describe societal doom; Pauline Kael, a critic whose influential career, not by accident, coincided with a golden age of American cinema.

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