In Telling true stories

Jacqui Banaszynski underlines this idea that reporters have to write about a place they don’t know, about people they don’t know and for people who will probably never go in that place. That’s what is so interesting in this job; your life is other people’ lives. Actually, being a narrative writer makes you be a part of those ordinary people’s everyday lives. And your life becomes theirs…at least for a while. They matter for you, you build relationships with them and Gay Talese underlines the risks of sharing their privacies: “..trying to avoid work, so I could get my mind off the miserable life that I was living.”