Cynthia Zarin is an American poet and journalist.

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(00:00) Growing Up Bookish in New York

(03:18) Childhood Influences and Becoming a Writer

(06:47) Columbia, Job Hunting, and The New Yorker

(10:41) Inside William Shawn's Legendary New Yorker

(14:19) Why Poetry Became Her Lifelong Medium

(17:46) Learning Journalism Through The New Yorker

(21:03) New York City and Literary Life in the 1980s

(24:42) The Magazine's Culture of Quiet Excellence

(28:07) From Character to Personality Culture

(31:36) Mentors, Editors, and Writing Craft

(34:12) Balancing Writing, Marriage, and Four Children

(38:09) Reporting While Raising a ...