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February 10, 2025
Visiting a talk show in Barcelona
My book “Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing,” now 25 years old, recently was translated into Catalán, thanks to an enterprising publisher in Barcelona. A TV talk show there heard about it and brought me over for an interview last month. (starts about 30 seconds into video.)
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January 18, 2025
A magazine asked my thoughts about the new movie “Sing Sing,” which follows a group of prisoners as they stage plays for the public. (Short answer: see it!)
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November 1, 2024
An esteemed publisher invited me to lunch with his staff in the Financial District to talk about what I do. David Steinberger and his team asked great questions and later asked if he could put the conversation online.
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July 23, 2024
The Vintage Books paperback edition of Cheap Land Colorado is out now. It features a new epilogue with updates on the main people in the book. Here’s where I’m scheduled to read from and sign copies of this new edition:
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February 22, 2024
I wrote for Outside magazine about the puzzling and tragic case of Rebecca Vance, who believed from the internet that people were about to be turned into machines and took her 13-year-old son and her sister “off-grid” to be “safe” at a campsite at 10,000 feet.
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April 2, 2023
I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with writer Lisa Wells, recently out in The Common.
Here are some places I’m excited to be speaking this summer:
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October 24, 2022
The days of the virtual book tour are behind us—I’ll be speaking and signing books in person at these wonderful places in coming weeks. Please stop by and say hello.
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May 17, 2022
My new book about life off-grid in Colorado’s San Luis Valley comes out this fall, and I’m super excited about it. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge describes the unusual people who choose to live on that beautiful, lonely prairie…
January 18, 2018
My latest article is “The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis,” in the January 2018 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Dr. Martin Luther King came to Memphis to support striking sanitation […]
Appearances
March 28, 2017
To book an appearance, please email Jodi Solomon Speakers, or call them at (617) 266-3450.
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March 28, 2017
MARCH 28, 2017, 7:00 PM Reading and Q&A Connecticut College, New London, CT To book an appearance, please email Jodi Solomon Speakers, or call them at (617) 266-3450.
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February 28, 2017
Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Reading
FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 7:30 PM Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Reading University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill To book an appearance, please email Jodi Solomon Speakers, or call them at […]
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February 23, 2017
FEBRUARY 23, 2017, 7:30 PM Talk & Book Signing [words] Bookstore, 179 Maplewood Avenue, Maplewood, NJ 07040 To book an appearance, please email Jodi Solomon Speakers, or call them at […]
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February 20, 2017
Thinking Like a Social Scientist, Writing Like a Journalist
FEBRUARY 20, 2017, 4:30 PM Thinking Like a Social Scientist, Writing Like a Journalist Rutgers University, Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 To […]
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February 8, 2017
Shane Bauer in Conversation with Ted Conover
FEBRUARY 8, 2017, 6:30 PM Shane Bauer in Conversation with Ted Conover NYU Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Sq., 7th fl Common, New York, NY 10003 To […]
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December 1, 2016
Reading and Q/A on Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep
DECEMBER 1, 2016, 6-8 PM Reading and Q/A on Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep Meg Cohen Design Shop, 59 Thompson St., New York, NY 10012 To book an appearance, […]
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November 22, 2016
“Lecture and Q&A” Gerard van Westerloolezing of the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 “Lecture and Q&A” Gerard van Westerloolezing of the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek (Initiative for Narrative Journalism in the Netherlands) Amsterdam, Netherlands To book an appearance, please email Jodi […]
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November 20, 2016
Keynote: Danish International Media Festival
NOVEMBER 20-21, 2016 Keynote: Danish International Media Festival Fagfestival ’16, Odense, Denmark To book an appearance, please email Jodi Solomon Speakers, or call them at (617) 266-3450.