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Since moving to Los Angeles from New York a few years ago, the majority of writing assignments I’ve landed are, not surprisingly, celebrity profiles. I’ll meet up with an A-, B-, or C-list celeb at a loud cafe or raucous restaurant of her (or, more likely, her publicist’s) choosing. Throughout the interview, I’ll attempt to appear interested, while inwardly I’ll obsess that my little digital recorder isn’t managing to cut through the din to document her precious utterances—which later I’ll laboriously transcribe.

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