How to become an advice columnist

Volunteering to write "Since You Asked ..." was a lot like saying, "May I carry your bags, please? May I light your cigarette?"

Published September 24, 2002 7:54PM (EDT)

Cary Tennis considers life's most pressing questions in audio form most every week on Salon.

This week he thinks out loud about how he came to write an advice column but first, and quite tangentially, blathers on about Public Radio International's "This American Life."


By Ranted by Cary Tennis



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