Journalism as Literature: "Picture," by Lillian Ross
Journalism as Literature #1
I once saw Lillian Ross on stage in New York, interviewing Robin Williams. This was not an easy job, because Robin Williams could take an innocent question and run with it for a long time, twisting and turning his answer into various kinds of surreality. (At one point, for example, he became for several minutes a beret-wearing, Gauloise-smoking French p…
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