Trust Me: A Visit from Bob Woodward

Michelle Chihara When I was an undergraduate, Bob Woodward visited my upper-level nonfiction writing seminar. As a favor to my instructor, he would answer our prepared questions and give a brief craft talk. We knew that he was an alum, that he had an informal standing agreement to hire the editor of the Yale Daily News, every year, to be his research assistant. We were there to try and impress the great man in service of our careers. The Internet tells me that as an undergraduate at Yale, Woodward was a member of Book & Snake, the Yale secret...

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