What is your current job?
I am a staff writer for The New Republic.
What was your first byline?
When I was nine or ten, I created my own "newspaper"—handwritten stories on printer paper—which I called The Grace Gazette. As far as I recall, it involved updates on the news of Graceland, my imaginary kingdom, and editorials written from the…
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