JM: How hard writing a book can be! I have been a magazine writer for a long time, but I had never written a book before, and I think I entered into it thinking, well, this will be like writing a whole lot of really long magazine pieces — uh, wrong|But in the meantime, I’m reading Joe McGinniss’s new book about Sarah Palin, “The Rogue,” which I need to read for a story that I am working on…|That shocked me a little bit, I have to say, and it also offered a challenge, which was to write that sort of book, a really objective, thoroughly researched and documented history and narrative exploration of this subject that so many people have heard of, yet know almost nothing about}