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Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
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Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
Something triumphant, I couldn’t tell you what but something vibrant and joyous.
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
I was a reporter for many years at the Washington Post. Although I loved every minute, I don’t think I was a very good reporter.
I didn’t want to be anything because I don’t look ahead. Even as a kid I thought it was pointless.
Probably a piece of music. I think it was probably an album by Brian Eno called Another Green World, which is one of his early ‘70s, it’s ambient music, but not the kind of really weird ambient music. There’s an adage that says the music you discover when you are 18, I think it’s 18 is the magic year, is the music that stays with you for the rest of your life. ... Well, I discovered that when I was 18. And I sing the songs of that album in my head all of the time. And I worship Brian Eno.
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