Author: Meg Bernhard

Meg Bernhard is a freelance journalist based in Barcelona. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Guernica, and Popula. Follow her on Twitter @meg_bernhard

by Meg Bernhard January 27, 2019 0

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Nothing is normal when your husband is exiled

“It’s not like there’s a textbook or some guidebook that teaches you how to behave or how to react when your husband becomes an exile.”

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January 27, 2019 - Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine, a contributing writer at WIRED, and a contributing editor at Harper’s. He’s the author of a travel memoir called A Sense of Direction, and he teaches nonfiction in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia. Here, he talks with Jacob about ideal story length (100 pages, anyone?), why it took months to work out the structure of his latest NYT Magazine piece, how he uses detail, and more. You can find his work here.

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