Read It Forward
How My Job in the Newsroom Helped Inform My Debut Novel

I’ll never forget my interview for my first reporting job. I was sitting with the bureau chief in a glass-walled conference room within the sprawling, open-plan newsroom—what I’d later think of as a fishbowl within a fishbowl. And as I answered one of his questions, I discovered I had a nosebleed. I was already very nervous; now I was mortified. But I reached for a tissue, and then another, and kept answering questions as if none of this were happening. The bureau chief didn’t blink. At the time, it seemed to me that I’d passed the true test: I might be bleeding from the head and embarrassing myself, but I would keep working. Nothing would slow me down...

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