"Betty MacDonald endured for me. This was because she was funny. No, that’s not quite right. Betty MacDonald was comic. As I became a writer myself, I studied her, trying to figure out just how she did it. . . . What MacDonald achieves in Anybody Can Do Anything is . . . a finely observed journalistic record of her time. . . . The message that MacDonald had sent me is one of sufficiency. The homely, she says is more than enough. There’s a clue, of course, right there in the title. It’s been telling me since I was a girl, right up through the time I became a writer myself. Anybody can do anything. Even this. Even you."
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Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses