James Sullivan reviews Mary Roach's keynote at the Power of Narrative conference, where the best-selling science author described her reporting as purposefully chaotic: "She does do research, though she doesn’t like to be too thorough. Instead, she’ll let the circumstances dictate where her questions might lead … To her, the work is almost like making a documentary film: as the writer, you choose the people and the setting, then let the situation go where it may."
April 24, 2016
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