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New in my Writers Talking Writers series at @publi New in my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly - Madeleine Thien discusses the “stone on stone” writing of her friend Y-Dang Troeung and the act of writing as an “afterlife.” Link in bio.
For the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam For the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War I spoke with adoptees and a medical director from Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of Vietnamese orphans just ahead of the fall of Saigon. The legacy is complicated, but it's quite a story no matter how you look at it. #vietnam #vietnamwar #history #operationbabylift
This month brings the 50th anniversary of the end This month brings the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, so we’ve spoken with two acclaimed authors who wrote about the conflict and its consequences. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Dust Child, The Mountains Sing) was born in the final years of the war and experienced Vietnam’s difficult post-war reconstruction. Karl Marlantes (Cold Victory, Matterhorn) served as a Marine at the war’s peak and was awarded the Navy Cross. Quế Mai discussed the simple yet stunning works of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Marlantes spoke on the spiritual impact of Leo Tolstoy. Link in bio!
“Kaveh is team poetry and I’m team novel,” s “Kaveh is team poetry and I’m team novel,” says Orange, “and we were both trying to recruit each other for each other’s teams, then realized we could play for both.” Link in bio!
This month, we spoke with 2009 National Book Award This month, we spoke with 2009 National Book Award recipient Colum McCann (Twist, Let the Great World Spin) about “patriot of elsewhere” John Berger, and with 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award winner Torrey Peters (Stag Dance, Detranstition, Baby) about the humor and empathy of Halldor Laxness. LINK IN BIO
"It was the largest American civil engineering dis "It was the largest American civil engineering disaster of the century – a byproduct of western expansion and the struggle known as the California Water Wars, which pitted the public against private business interests and set the stage for a century of conflict over the state’s most contested resource."
New for @nautilusmag, a look at Stronger, a fascin New for @nautilusmag, a look at Stronger, a fascinating new book by @michaeljosephgross on how our understanding of muscle and strength has evolved over the millenia.
New for my Writers Talking Writers series at @publ New for my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly - Charlotte Wood on William Maxwell and Laila Lalami on Franz Kafka. Link in bio! #writer #writers#writerscommunity #writing#writingcommunity #literature #books
New for @aljazeeraenglish - “I hope that people New for @aljazeeraenglish - “I hope that people maybe just aren’t aware of how poorly paid and poorly treated their federal firefighters are,” says Bobbie Scopa, executive secretary for Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an extralegal lobbying group of retired and anonymous firefighters campaigning to improve pay and labour conditions. “They feel underappreciated.” Link in bio #firefighter #firefighters #wildfire #climatechange #wildfires
My latest for @nautilusmag is about one of the bes My latest for @nautilusmag is about one of the best science/history books I've read. Carl Zimmer's Air-Bourne tells the history of how humans discovered that life (like viruses) can live in the air, how we transmit them, and how our approaches to pandemics have evolved. It's super engaging and informative. I recommend it as a gift to covid skeptic family members who enjoy reading about history. They'll get wrapped up in the story and learn something along the way. Link in bio! #science #history #books
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Bowie lived here. Read about it in my new Al Jazee Bowie lived here. Read about it in my new Al Jazeera piece! #davidbowie#bowie#music#berlin#berlinwall#history#art#arthistory
"Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with ol "Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story of Bowie and the Berlin Wall suggests important lessons. That there can be great creativity and beauty even through calamity. That the human compulsion towards freedom cannot be caged. That life is full of changes. That walls come down." Link in bio. #davidbowie#bowie#music#berlin#berlinwall#history#art#arthistory
My latest for @aljazeeraenglish indulges my apprec My latest for @aljazeeraenglish indulges my appreciation for Time and Space. Link in bio! #science#space#moon#time
New for my Writers Talking Writers series at @publ New for my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly - This month, we spoke with 1991 Booker Prize recipient Ben Okri (The Famished Road, The Age of Magic) about the groundbreaking Nigerian poet-soldier Christopher Okigbo and 2021 National Book Award nominee Katie Kitamura (Intimacies, Audition) about Italian essayist and novelist Natalia Ginzburg’s powerful fusion of the personal and the political. Link in bio! #books#writing #writer #writerscommunity #literature #books#art#bookrecommendations
A few shots to go along with my new @aljazeeraengl A few shots to go along with my new @aljazeeraenglish piece on William Burroughs and the death of Joan Vollmer. I’ve been fascinated with the story for years because on one hand Burroughs is one of my biggest artistic inspirations, but on the other I find it difficult to reconcile his monstrosity. He was a tremendous writer but a terrible person, and Joan Vollmer ended up yet another woman cast into the dustpan of history in the furtherance of a “great man.” Here are a few shots of the bar where they hung out above which Vollmer was shot (then called the Bounty, now Krika’s), the park where the Beats used to get high, the street where the couple lived, and one of the only photos of Vollmer’s grave ever published. #williamsburroughs #williamburroughs #burroughs#joanvollmer #art#literature #books#beatgeneration #history#mexicocity
I've spent years trying to convince someone to let I've spent years trying to convince someone to let me write about the death of Joan Vollmer, and here it finally is. Including one of the first published photos of her grave. Link in bio. #williamsburroughs #williamburroughs #joanvollmer #literature #books#art
My latest for @aljazeeraenglish is one of the most My latest for @aljazeeraenglish is one of the most powerful I've worked on: "...the chance to go back and do something. I wouldn’t call it closure … my daughter called it ‘closing the circle’. That’s a good description.” Link in bio. #vietnam #vietnamwar
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nickhilden Nick Hilden @nickhilden ·
13 Mar

New for @AJEnglish

"The California Water Wars...pitted the public against private business interests and set the stage for a century of conflict over the state’s most contested resource."

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17 Feb

FACT CHECK: @JDVanceclaims “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” False: judges interpret what is or is not a legitimate use of power. This is a key aspect of the US system of checks and balances.

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15 Feb

My latest for @NautilusMag - interview w/ @carlzimmer about his excellent book on the history of aerobiology and the "invisible zoo" all around us.

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15 Feb

My latest for @AJEnglish is disturbingly timely amidst all the Forest Service firings.

Lives on the line: Low pay has US wildland firefighters quitting

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