Paul Tough made an unusual decision in the first sentence of his story, "A Speck in the Sea," about a man suddenly cast adrift in the ocean. The decision: He revealed that the man survived. Tough explains to Steven Wilmsen why he did that, and how it fundamentally changed his story: "Once it became a story not about whether he survived but how he survived, then there were lots of little dramas to consider within that overarching narrative."
April 17, 2016
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