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Writer: NY Times, Rolling Stone, New York mag, Fast Company, etc. Author of Homey Don't Play That!: The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
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David Peisner is a freelance writer based in Decatur, Georgia. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Details, New York, Playboy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and many other publications even less reputable than those.

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Marty Makary: The Exit Interview Original

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By David Peisner 
| Men's Health
I’D BEEN TALKING to FDA commissioner Marty Makary for about 45 minutes on Thursday afternoon, when his cellphone rang. We were sitting, accompanied by an FDA press liaison, at a long table in a conference room attached to Makary’s office at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. The interview had been going smoothly enough.
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Ashley McBryde Saved Her Own Life. Now She's Rocking Out Her Way.

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By David Peisner 
| The Charlotte Observer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ashley McBryde moved to Nashville nearly 20 years ago propelled by the same youthful optimism and single-minded ambition that had pushed generations of country music dreamers before her. Then, on Day 2 of her life here, she walked into a karaoke bar on the city’s east side. “This gorgeous woman is onstage, singing ‘All by Myself,’” she said on a recent afternoon, briefly rising from her chair and breaking into a note-perfect rendition of Eric Carmen’s 1975 soft-rock classic.
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Ashley McBryde Saved Her Own Life. Now She's Rocking Out Her Way.

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By David Peisner 
| Breaking One
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ashley McBryde moved to Nashville nearly 20 years ago propelled by the same youthful optimism and single-minded ambition that had pushed generations of country music dreamers before her. Then, on Day 2 of her life here, she walked into a karaoke bar on the city's east side. "This gorgeous woman is onstage, singing 'All by Myself,'" she said on a recent afternoon, briefly rising from her chair and breaking into a note-perfect rendition of Eric Carmen's 1975 soft-rock classic.
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