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Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Writer on Writing
How I Write: Mike Mullane

Since when does a former space-shuttle astronaut show a natural narrative voice and poetically capture the beauty of outer space? And since when does an astronaut candidly admit the fears he felt on the launch pad? For readers of his memoir, Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane shows a lot of the right stuff ? literarily speaking. "He?s a natural when it comes to voice and narrative," says Brant Rumble, his editor at Scribner's....(read more)

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