2017-03-02
31 分钟Modern.
The podcast is supported by from the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
This week we'll feature part two of our live Valentine's Day show at the Wilbur Theater in Boston.
And we'll start off with the man behind the modern Love column, editor Daniel Jones.
I'm going to read just a short piece that is called how we write about love.
Because I've written, or I've read some, probably some 80,000 essays about love.
Over twelve years I've been doing this.
So these are the lessons I've learned.
Some of them how we write about love.
When I first started this job more than twelve years ago, I hardly knew anything about love.
In fact, a journalist who interviewed me early on in my job said at one point, so you're like a male Carrie Bradshaw.
And I had no idea what she was talking about.
I'd never heard of Carrie Bradshaw.
I actually thought that she said I was like a male Terry Bradshaw.
The.
Former Steelers quarterback, now Fox sports commentator who I'd grown up idolizing in my suburban Pittsburgh childhood.
This was confusing to me on so many levels.
First, what did Terry Bradshaw have to do with editing personal essays about relationships?