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Jordan talks to journalist Lauren Sandler about how close you can or should get to your subjects, about who gets to write what and why, and about the driving forces behind the stories that intrigue her.

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother\\u2019s Search for Home (named a Notable Book of 2020 by The New York Times) and she\'s the author of two previous books -- One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child and the Joy of Being One\\xa0and\\xa0Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement.\\xa0\\xa0

Lauren\'s essays and features have appeared in dozens of publications including Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic,\\xa0The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, New York Magazine,\\xa0and Elle.\\xa0She has been on staff at Salon and at NPR, where she worked on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and the Cultural Desk.\\xa0She has led the OpEd Project\\u2019s Public Voices Fellowships at Yale,\\xa0Columbia, UVA, and Dartmouth,\\xa0and has taught in the graduate journalism program at NYU, where she has also been Visiting Scholar. Lauren is a member of NationSwell Council. She has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale, a Calderwood Journalism Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, a Mid-Atlantic Fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and a Brown Foundation resident at the Maison Dora Maar in Menerbes, France.

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