美国国家公共电台 NPR Mall Of America Searches For Writer-In-Residence

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Who says nobody dreams big anymore?

MATT NEGRIN: I want to write about what it's like to never leave the Mall of America.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

That's Matt Negrin. He's a comedy writer in New York. This week, he learned that there is a job just right for him at this country's largest mall, the Mall of America.

CORNISH: Dan Jasper is vice¹ president there.

DAN JASPER: We're having a writer-in-residence contest.

CORNISH: The mall turns 25 this summer, and they're hiring a writer-in-residence as part of the celebration. They already have 500 entries.

SHAPIRO: As Thoreau once took inspiration from Walden Pond, one lucky writer will have the chance to go to the mall and live deliberately².

JASPER: Have five days on the mall. They can interact with shoppers or ride a roller coaster or swim with sharks, be immersed into the life and the excitement of the mall and get to write whatever they really feel like that pertains³ somehow to Mall of America.

CORNISH: Writer Matt Negrin put one additional condition on his application.

NEGRIN: I want to make sure, should you select me as your writer-in-residence, that a security guard is assigned to my person 24 hours a day. Not to protect me, but to stop me from trying to escape the Mall of America.

SHAPIRO: One note. The terms and conditions say that the writer's work must not be inaccurate⁴, derogatory, incompatible⁵ with, inconsistent with or otherwise contradictory⁶ to the Mall of America's desired presentation. Art isn't easy.

CORNISH: The application closes March 10. Good luck.

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