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reviews  

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets , by Sudhir Venkatesh. The Nation, February 4, 2008.

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Oil on the Brain: Adventures From the Pump to the Pipeline, by Lisa Margonelli. New York Times Book Review, March 11, 2007.

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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse, by Steve Bogira. New York Times Book Review, May 1, 2005.

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Blue Blood, by Edward Conlon. New York Times Book Review, April 18, 2004.

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Seek: Reports From the Edges of America and Beyond, by Denis Johnson. New York Times Book Review, June 17, 2001.

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The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: A Memoir, by Nasdijj*. New York Times Book Review, October 15, 2000. 

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*(It turns out that the author of this book, Nasdijj, was a fake. See the article, "Navahoax," in the L.A. Weekly.)

The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean. New York Times Book Review, January 3, 1999.

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Spring travel book roundup. New York Times Book Review, May 31, 1998.

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Pass The Butterworms, by Tim Cahill. New York Times Book Review, March 23, 1997.

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Spring travel book roundup, New York Times Book Review, June 11, 1995.

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The Invisible Women of Washington, by Diana G. Collier, Bloomsbury Review, September, 1991.

Albuquerque: Coming Back to the USA, by Margaret Randall, Bloomsbury Review, November, 1986.

Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings, by Tom Kromer, Bloomsbury Review, Fall, 1986.

The Immigration Time Bomb, by Richard Lamm and Gary Imhoff, Bloomsbury Review, February, 1986.

 

 

introductions & forewords

True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism, by Norman Sims. Medill Visions of the American Press, 2008. [foreword]

The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown-Up, by Amy Benson. Houghton-Mifflin, 2004. [introduction]

Hard Time: Voices from a State Prison, 1849-1914 (foreword), ed. Ted Genoways. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. [foreword]

 

 

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