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First Person

  1. September 18, 2007 09:00 AM

    Unshackled

    Why one reporter left a newspaper to write books

    By Linda Perlstein

    When I left a reporting job at The Washington Post several years ago, I lost an institution I loved—not to mention free LexisNexis and an affiliation that pretty much guaranteed that my phone calls were returned right away. But I gained the opportunity to immerse myself in a project that I’m sure could never have been created for the...

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  2. January 01, 2007 08:30 AM

    The Communist Way

    Vietnam: the subtleties of censorship

    By Dusin Roasa

    I was accustomed to being censored as an editor, but not as a writer. It pained me that Lam was the one to do it.

    Lam was a senior editor at the Vietnam Investment Review, the most liberal paper in Vietnam’s media world, which is entirely government-controlled. In a year and a half as an editor in Hanoi,...

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  3. January 01, 2007 08:30 AM

    Ode to the Author's Query

    They fueled her childhood dreams; now they’re vanishing.

    By Penelope Rowlands

    It was tiny, the slightest piece of prose ever published under my name. If you were nearsighted or preoccupied, you might easily have missed it. It probably went unnoticed by many readers of The New York Times Book Review when it appeared, at the foot of page twelve, on March 14, 2004, under the heading “Author’s Query.” What followed...

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