Paid subscribers get two extra issues a month. One of those is ET Ask Home, inspired by Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire (now featuring new questions for 2024). This month’s guest is Mythili Sampathkumar, a New York-based journalist and copywriter.
Hi! Thanks for doing this. Please put down how you’d like to be identified here:
Mythili is a journalist and copywriter and author of the new newsletter, Export Quality.
Is there a particular photo you’d like me to use? It doesn’t have to be of you. It can be of, like, a dog.
What is a piece of writing (book, play, poem, etc) that you think of often?
The Alchemist comes to mind, particularly right now as I search for my next professional move. More recently, I have also been thinking of pieces written by Rebecca Traister and Dr. Tressie McMillian Cottom who capture the frustration and anger I can't articulate as well about politics and institutions of all kinds. The real answer to this though, my true literary Roman Empire, is anything written or edited by Carrie Fisher. Her wit was acerbic but still warm and accessible — something I will always work towards achieving in my writing.
What is the best piece of advice you ever received?
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