“I could suddenly see — and this is how I know when I'm supposed to start writing — is that words start putting themselves together in my head, and I just have to get them out, right? Which doesn't happen all the time, but it did for this," says Cassidy Randall, author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women's Ascent of Denali (Abrams Books).

Cassidy's work has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Outside Magazine, The Atavist, and many, many others.

In this episode we talk about:

The beginning and ending
Sticky notes
The post-book funk
Interviewing
And so much more

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Episode 459: Cassidy Randall Talks Forgotten Histories, Sticky Notes, and the Power of Listening

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Episode 459: Cassidy Randall Talks Forgotten Histories, Sticky Notes, and the Power of Listening