Staff Writer
@NewYorker
. Author of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder. Other books: Killers of the Flower Moon; Lost City of Z; The White Darkness
My new book, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder," is finally launched into the world today. It's been a six year journey, and I'm grateful to so many of you who kept me afloat.
I wrote a
@newyorker
story abt a remarkable modern-day explorer who set out to walk alone across Antarctic. The piece deals with obsession, Shackleton & courage, but is also a love story. I hope you'll take a look:
The press tends to excoriate politicians' personal lies, because non-ideological, but too often fails to denote politicians' lies about public policy, because seen as ideological--even though the latter is far more objectively measured.
Happy to announce my new book, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder," is done! About castaways stranded on a desolate island who descend into anarchy & murder. And about how people and nations tell stories—and manipulate them.
Editors are often silent partners, & I couldn't have written this story without the
@NewYorker
's Daniel Zalewski, one of the most brilliant editors and writers.
"There’s an expectation, in reviewing a book like The Wager, to balance its strengths with some discussion of its flaws. But The Wager is one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read"--
@MatthewTeague
's review in
@guardian
This
@edyong209
piece not only brilliantly cuts through the thicket of misinformation on the virus but also illuminates the very nature of scientific discovery
@TheAtlantic
Every person—politician, sycophant, pundit, thug—complicit in this coup should never again have a respectable place in American society, and should be shunned as traitors.
Every American should read this piece: "The baby boom is being evicted from the penthouse of American politics," writes
@RonBrownstein
. "And on the way out, it has decided to trash the place."
My twitter life increasingly mirrors my real life: innocence, bewilderment and astonishment, obsession, burn out, disillusionment and despair, creeping death.
Holy smokes! Wall Street Journal calls The Wager "a tour de force of narrative nonfiction" and "the most gripping true-life sea yarn," which will "cast a powerful spell on modern readers" via
@WSJBooks
My NYer story "The White Darkness" is being published on Oct. 30 as a beautiful book, with more than 50 photos that tell a story unto themselves. I hope you'll check it out:
After many parents and my own children told me they wished Killers of the Flower Moon would be accessible to younger readers, it's been a bit of a passion project to adapt it. And I'm happy to announce its finally done & will be published on Nov 16.
I was honored to write with Jim Gray, a former Osage chief whose great-grandfather was killed during the Reign of Terror, about recent efforts to suppress teaching this history in schools in Oklahoma and beyond.
This is the first-ever footage of a live giant squid in U.S. waters. The squid is most likely a juvenile, measuring about 12 feet long. Filming one has been called the "holy grail of natural cinematography."
This is how researchers pulled it off:
@pamelacolloff
Answer to question 1: Eventually break the narrative down into discrete reported sections, like a magazine piece, so it feels manageable.
Answer to question 2: Everything!