Dan Barry: Writing Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary People - Part 1

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If you’ve read Dan Barry’s books and his work in The New York Times, you know. If you haven’t, time to start. He’s eloquently told the story of people across the country with a nod to the“operatic”lives he witnessed growing up in a working class neighborhood on Long Island. And he is a gifted storyteller, about his Irish Catholic home where reading and newspapers were venerated, the period when he dug ditches to make money even after he’d earned a graduate degree and the day when one of his writing heroes decided to accompany Dan to a cancer procedure in New York.Enjoy part one of my conversation with Dan Barry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices