2. A.J. Baime: "At One Point He Fired Me, But Nobody Told Me"

AJ Baime has spent 30 years in magazines and written seven books, two of them New York Times bestsellers. He decided he wanted to write books when he was seven, wrapped his first one in wallpaper from his childhood home, and spent his twenties taking on jobs he wasn't ready for.I talk to AJ about quitting his NYU PhD before finishing the program, getting fired from an early magazine job without anyone bothering to tell him, and how he survived the collapse of print magazines.