Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses the days of interviews are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife.
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About Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm was a 20th-century American journalist. Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Read more on Wikipedia →