12 June 2008, by Webmaster
"No editor would let you start a story with this quote, the one I’m starting with right here, except one that understood that surprise is everything," says Ira Glass, host of the popular radio and television show This American Life.
It’s where the inveterate raconteur’s mind automatically goes when we discuss, journalist to journalist, how I’ll craft this article. The quote says something about how the show caught on.
In a manifesto written by Glass in the Transom Review, an online forum (...)