Your new book, “Living With a Wild God,” is quite a departure from the immersive, investigative reporting work you’re known for. It’s about dissociative experiences that you had in your teens. Can you describe them? When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
You’ve published more than 20 books, including “Nickel and Dimed,” but this is your first memoir. Did you have an aversion to the category? Yeah. I thought it was just an exercise in vanity.
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