"When I was first starting out, Bill Safire, another columnist at The Times, gave me some great advice...never start a paragraph with the phrase 'on the other hand,' because when you're writing for the Times, you're always going to make someone angry," Rich said. "You have to be true to yourself."
Rich focuses primarily on the beginnings of his thespian obsession in his memoir, not on his eventual career in journalism, but he said last night that it was good to be back in the town where it all began.
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"Everything I know about journalism I learned from The Harvard Crimson, so everything that went wrong is all their fault," Rich said.