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Published · transcript-backedLarissa MacFarquhar: prediction
16 Jan 2019 Conversations with Tyler Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
“I would say that the predictions of the death of publishing and the death of reading have been going on for decades and they should ignore them.”
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- Larissa MacFarquhar
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- prediction
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- 16 Jan 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Final question. Let’s say a very smart 22-year-old comes up to you, and they say they would like to emulate your career — not in every detail, and obviously the path you took is no longer exactly available. But what advice would you give that person overall? I would say that the predictions of the death of publishing and the death of reading have been going on for decades and they should ignore them. It’s not true. People will continue to read. I don’t know what form they’ll continue to read in. They may not read on paper; they may read only online. But if a person wants to be a writer, there is no reason not to do that. Larissa, thank you very much.…
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