“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
“That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968
“I felt no need to record those situations and moments of extremity that were the stuff of the media. It was to the quiet and commonplace where nothing ‘happened’ and yet all was contained and immanent that I was most drawn.”
― Photographer David Goldblatt, in a Mail & Guardian interview with Sean O’Toole, December 2013
Tanya Pampalone has more than 20 years experience living and working as a writer, columnist and editor for magazines, newspapers and online publications in Los Angeles, Prague, San Francisco and Johannesburg. More than half of that time has been spent in senior editorial management roles, including strategic planning and new project management.