[inaudible] i dont know what has been said, but i would like to maybe so has already raised this point. I dont really see, i dont see how the age of twitter, if thats what age we are in, obviates longform journalism. First of all im reminded of one of the great jazz trumpeters luster was asked, what do we know about jazz . He said it depends on what you know. If you want long form listen, its out there in many forms. To the extent it is as much as used the, many things besides twitter are at fault. But there, i think twitter can actually be a facilitator to all forms of journalism. I know, you know, listen, ive also people like Stephen Colbert just because its fun. I follow a lot of people because i know that they will link me to Interesting Articles about ukraine or cyberwarfare or something that im otherwise going to miss. And so i say twitter you know, used in a certain way. And i assume as most of you, see it as a great facilitator, a new kind of curator that was otherwise unavaila
Disclosure that a u. N. Peacekeeping force from nepal was the source of a cholera outbreak. He leaves readers fully aware of how much remains to be done if haiti is to have a Brighter Future is and it currently is looking at. That is it, they were all fabulous books but one of them has to win the bernstein award. That is dan fagin for toms river a story of science and salvation. [applause] dont go quite yet. Have two words. Wow. All right. I long for liz. [applause] wow. Long form lives because of people like the bernstein family. Thank you very much for places like New York Public Library that care about reality, care about what actually is in this world. It lives because of people like you that support this kind of work and it especially lives because of amazing books like david and jonathan and fred and sheri fink and we are just surrogates for a much Larger Population of people who do this work everyday. This is an amazing faint. Truth actually matters and when it stopped smatterin
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River is a town in new jersey. Its actually a small city at this point. And i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years until the Chemical Industry came to town in 1952. And that changed everything in toms river. This book tells the story of everything that happened next. Host first of all, what kind of town is toms river . Or was it when you were writing about it . Guest well, before the Chemical Industry came to town it was a sleepy place where there were tourists from the summer from philly and new york city, but mostly there were farmers, chicken farming was a big thing in toms river. It was a quiet place. And then it started to grow very rapidly once the Chemical Industry came to town and once the garden state parkway came down. And it became a place where there was lots of rapid growth. For a while it was one of the Fastest Growing communities in the whole country. Host so its, what, halfway between new york and philadelphia on th
Has been called the most famous photograph in america. Its sort of the Michael Jordan of photographs. Its used in every textbook. When i ask my students what is the visual image you have of the Great Depression of the 1930s, they describe this photograph. Host where was that photograph taken . Guest it was actually taken in california, and its interesting because she was really the main california in the western u. S. During the 1930s depression. And it was taken among people working in a peapicking field. These were migrant farm workers who moved along from field to field, from one agricultural operation to another picking as the crops ripened. But this particular woman had been, and her family and many others, were stuck because there had been an unseasonal freeze. And there wasnt work. The pea crop was destroyed, and they were sitting there with no work and hoping that they would find work at their next stop. Host what year was that photograph taken . Guest that photograph was taken