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Person Place Thing with writer Margalit Fox

Margalit Fox
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Margalit Fox
Margalit Fox

For years, the obits she wrote for The New York Times were the first thing I’d read in the paper, elegant little biographies, exemplary work in a form that she says was once, “the scarlet O you wore on your dress that said, I’m a bad writer but the paper doesn’t quite have enough on me to be able to fire me.”

You can hear the full episode at personplacething.org.