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Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo
American Journalist
Born: Aug 12, 1964
Anything Me People Think Wealth Work
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all. Katherine Boo
Great Me World Great Deal Inevitable Strike Way Intractable Deal
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting. Katherine Boo
Time Crazy Wealth Husband Met Few Changed Spending Out City Indian Slums Had Prospects New Prospering Like Majority Make Parts How Were Years Lot Reporting Wondering Quite Stopped After While Who Lived Mumbai Residents Started
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying? Katherine Boo
Myself Good Me Selfish Suffering People Good Person Think Find Make Makes Person Should Less Who Why
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves. Katherine Boo
Sense Exaggerated Inspiring How How Much Doing Governments Often Poor Themselves Much Really Help Thing
When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work. Katherine Boo
Work Health Me You Big Sit Own Down Dramas My Own Tied Deal Doing Big Deal Up Get Anything Story Prefer Much Engaged Medical
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. Katherine Boo
Work Pleasure Guilty Guilty Pleasure Pretty About Pretty Much Anything Feels Like Nonfiction Anything Low-Income Much Your Communities
I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe. Katherine Boo
Love Stupid Meet Writers Go Useless Awe

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