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Fire Shut Up in My Bones A Memoir

Charles M. Blow

A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past

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Mick Unplugged

The host highlighted the memoir as a powerful, raw, and introspective work that illustrated how personal storytelling can ignite a journalist's passion. He noted that reading the book revealed the source of the author's fervor in his New York Times columns.

Highly Recommended

Episode: Jonathan Capehart: Lessons in Truth, Connection, a...

Capehart cited Blow's memoir as another powerful, raw, introspective work that demonstrated how personal storytelling can fuel a journalist's passion.

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Fast forward 20 years, I read Charles Blow's memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Again, raw, open, honest, introspective. And it showed me where the passion came from in Charles's columns for the New York Times.

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