The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
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‘I Try Not to Have a Schedule’: Talking Writing with William Vollmann
Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
An interview with Brantley Hargrove, the author of a new biography of the storm chaser Tim Samaras, who was killed by the biggest tornado ever recorded. To understand the life of a chaser, Hargrove had to become one himself.
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Uncategorized
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
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Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean
Cultural critic Michelle Dean discusses her new book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. Topics covered range from emotionally fraught book reviews of Susan Sontag to male blowback against the famous first line of Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer to how horrified Elizabeth Hardwick was by her friend Adrienne […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Discussions, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses
Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Story
It’s a Wonderful World: The Remaking of California Agriculture
An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.
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What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.