Dan Barry: Writing Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary People - Part 2

Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin

Dan Barry paid his dues on his journey to becoming an acclaimed author and writer and columnist for The New York Times. There was a first job at a small paper in Connecticut where he covered the murder of one of his newspaper colleagues. There was a disastrous first job interview at the Times, having nothing to do with Dan or actually anyone at the Times either. And there is the priceless story of Dan walking to a cancer procedure in the early 2000s, accompanied by his newspaper writing hero, Jimmy Breslin. Enjoy part two of my conversation with Dan Barry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices