David Grann’s Tweets

Ukraine reportedly begins advancing to liberate country's south

Christopher Miller

@ChristopherJM

Aug 29

Ukraine’s big counteroffensive in the south seems to be underway. “Today we started offensive actions in various directions, including in the Kherson region,” said South Command spox Nataliya Humenyuk. Follows weeks of missile attacks on Russian military depots, command centers.

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Stratcom Centre UA

@StratcomCentre

· Aug 29

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have breached the occupiers' first line of defence near Kherson. They believe that Ukraine has a real chance to get back its occupied territories, especially considering the very successful use of Western weapons by the Ukrainian army.

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Ukraine reportedly begins advancing to liberate country's south, according to Kyiv Independent!

kyivindependent.com

Ukraine’s Armed Forces have launched an offensive “in many directions in the south of Ukraine,” Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Operational Command South, said on Aug. 29. Humeniuk...

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A superb, in-depth

profile: "Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over," by Margaret Talbot

Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over

He’s had win after win—including overturning Roe v. Wade—yet seems more and more aggrieved. What drives his anger?

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Social Media Was a C.E.O.’s Bullhorn, and How He Lured Women

Aug 19

Morning reading tip sheet:

nytimes.com

Dan Price was applauded for paying a minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle company and criticizing corporate greed. The adulation helped to hide and enable his behavior.

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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

Horrible. Horrible.

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage...

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The Greatest Athlete of All Time? Jim Thorpe.

Aug 12

In the new book about Jim Thorpe, the great biographer

@davidmaraniss

details the enormous odds that a Native American hero had to overcome.

nytimes.com

In the new biography “Path Lit by Lightning,” David Maraniss details the enormous odds that a Native American hero had to overcome.

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Magic City Books

@MagicCityBooks

Aug 10

Not OK. Call. Write. Show up.

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Jim Gray (The former Chief)

Aug 10

This is so infuriating.

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@JimGray17710373

· Aug 10

@DavidGrann I knew this was going to happen with all the crazy laws getting passed in Oklahoma. twitter.com/CarmenMForman/…

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David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89

Aug 8

David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89

nytimes.com

His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.

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Hamed Aleaziz

@Haleaziz

Aug 7

The definitive story on family separation from

@itscaitlinhd

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@itscaitlinhd

· Aug 7

1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here's my story about how and why it happened, and who's responsible. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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Susan Glasser

@sbg1

Aug 8

"You fucking generals, why can't you be like the German generals?" New piece w/

@peterbakernyt

@newyorker

on Trump's war with his generals:

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.

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Jul 31

Congratulations on finishing this powerful book and ushering it into the world.

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Jerad W. Alexander

@jerad_alexander

· Oct 20, 2021

And here it is... My first book will land in the world on November 9. I hope it lands well. I’m both nervous and excited. Writing is not easy, especially about yourself, and penning this book was certainly tough at times. But honestly… What a ride!

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Jul 26

Don’t miss this remarkable, immersive documentary tonight!

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Retro Report

@RetroReport

· Jul 22

Since the summer of 2020, @RetroReport reporters documented the impact of the pandemic on housing and evictions. They followed tenants, landlords, lawyers, judges, sheriffs and others across the U.S. who were affected. "Facing Eviction" airs on Frontline PBS on July 26, 10/9c.

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‘Facing Eviction’ Review: When Help Is Less Than Helpful

Kyra Darnton

@KyraDarnton

Jul 22

Thank you to the WSJ for reviewing ⁦⁦our collaboration with ⁦

@frontlinepbs

⁩! Congratulations to the whole ⁦

@RetroReport

⁩ team.

wsj.com

‘Frontline’ looks at tenants and landlords across the U.S. struggling with the complex bureaucracy of eviction moratoriums in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Jul 21

This is comedic gold: Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a via

Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation

Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else?

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The Wager by David Grann: 9780385534260 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Jul 19

You can read more and (hint, hint) preorder here:

penguinrandomhouse.com

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking...

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My dream version of NBA twitter: Joel Embiid dancing the hora.

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Tori Rubinstein

@ToriRubinstein

· Jul 17

Joel Embiid dancing the Hora is the only thing I want to see on social media this week.

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Jul 14

A lovely tribute and remembrance of the

editor John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah." I would've said "legendary" editor, but John would've excised the word for pomp

John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah”

“An editor is like a shrink,” was one of many Bennetisms. He was that, and a lot more.

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Promised land: how South Africa’s black farmers were set up to fail

Jul 13

A wonderful review of Eve Fairbanks's excellent new book on Apartheid's legacy of South Africa: publishersweekly.com/9781476725246 And here's an excerpt:

theguardian.com

The long read: After apartheid, when black people were given back their land, many felt driven to prove they could farm as well as white South Africans. But even before they had begun, the system was...

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Jul 13

Isn't one of the three classic blunders in The Princess Bride--don't every try to win a trade with Danny Ainge?

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Sports Illustrated

@SInow

· Jul 13

The New York Knicks reportedly will try putting together a trade package to go after Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell

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John was one of the greatest editors, and I feel so blessed to have known him and been guided by his wisdom. He was whip-smart, generous, and soulful.

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Charles Bennet

@ChuckBenetRamse

· Jul 10

My dad and best friend, John Bennet (@slothead) passed away peacefully at home, his family camped out around his bed. He loved my mom. He loved The New Yorker. He loved teaching young people. A charmed life for a poor kid from Athens, Texas. I was so blessed to have him as a dad.

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Jun 28

David Remnick, a master of the art of the profile, on the gospel according to Mavis Staples. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/ via

The Gospel According to Mavis Staples

A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.

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Fairfax County NewsCenter Headlines

@fairfaxnewswire

Jun 6

Join Author David Grann for a Virtual Discussion of His Book “Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” and His Creative Process June 8

librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov

Killers of the Flower Moon: Meet Author David Grann

Kick off Adult Summer Reading with David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI...now in production with Martin Scorcese as director and...

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Patrick Radden Keefe

@praddenkeefe

Jun 6

This is one of the wildest stories I've ever written, about a combustible CIA hacker, Josh Schulte, who tangled with colleagues & kept escalating the conflict. Now he stands accused of the ultimate payback: the biggest leak in CIA history. Meet King Josh

The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge

A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?

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Lasers reveal ancient urban sprawl hidden in the Amazon

David Biller

@DLBiller

May 25

"Such low-density urban sprawl from pre-Columbian times was previously unknown in the Amazon or anywhere else in South America. ... Airborne lasers peered through dense trees ... to identify structures that have long eluded land-based archaeologists."

sciencenews.org

South America’s Casarabe culture built a network of large and small settlements in what’s now Bolivia centuries before the Spanish arrived.

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The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Laura Miller

@magiciansbook

May 24

Margaret Atwood takes a flamethrower to an unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale:

youtube.com

To benefit PEN America’s work defending freedom of expression, Penguin Random House is proud to partner with Margaret Atwood and Sotheby’s to offer an unburn...

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Bill Browder

@Billbrowder

May 21

St. Petersburg concertgoers yelling in unison “F..k the war” over and over. Perhaps Putin’s propaganda isn’t convincing everyone.

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Соболь Любовь

@SobolLubov

· May 21

Питер. Концерт. Весь зал скандирует «Х** войне!» К слову о том, что все россияне поддерживают Путина. Это не так!

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May 20

“Remembering Roger Angell, Hall of Famer,” by David Remnick newyorker.com/news/postscrip via

Remembering Roger Angell, Hall of Famer

In the course of a well-lived century, he established himself as the most exacting of editors, the most agile of stylists, a mentor to generations of writers, and baseball’s finest, fondest chronic...

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May 20

He was a national treasure.

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Connor Ennis

@EnnisNYT

· May 20

"Roger Angell, the elegant and thoughtful baseball writer who was widely considered among the best America has produced, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101." @DwightGarner with the @nytimes obit nytimes.com/2022/05/20/spo

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May 17

Quote of day from Alex Garland: “I find myself getting less and less certain about everything.” Even your own work? “Oh, I have no certainty about that. That’s just a bunch of compulsions.”

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Kenneth Turan

@KennethTuran

· May 16

Alex Garland's "Ex Machina" is a film I am particularly fond of, so the notion that his latest, "Men," might be his last is as disquieting as his movies. @kylebuchanan provides the details. nytimes.com/2022/05/16/mov

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May 16

Another essential dispatch by

@yaffaesque

: A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime newyorker.com/magazine/2022/ via

A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime

How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol.

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Christopher Miller

@ChristopherJM

May 16

Incredible image from inside the besieged Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

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Орест

@Kozatsky_D

· May 16

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Viktor Kovalenko

@MrKovalenko

May 13

He's a famous #Ukrainian pop singer. As the war began, he enlisted himself into the Armed Forces. He was ordered to continue singing for troops to keep up their morale high. Here he's in the most surreal concert venue - nuclear contaminated #Chernobyl.

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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk

@s_vakarchuk

· May 13

It is probably the first in history music performance at Chornobyl power station! Incredible workers - brave and dedicated to their job. Everything is gonna be alright! #Ukraine

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Interior Department releases first report on Indian boarding school impact

May 12

Former Osage Nation Chief

@JimGray17710373

speaks abt the fate of his grandfather, who was forced to attend boarding school and later killed during the Reign of Terror tulsaworld.com/news/local/int via

@tulsaworld

tulsaworld.com

The federal government either directly operated or provided support for 408 Indian boarding schools nationwide, including 76 in Oklahoma, to strip the youths of their culture, language and traditio...

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Read an excerpt of

's superb new memoir, which is out today.

With Father-and-Son Writers, Who Gets to Tell the Family Story?

A relationship reconsidered by reading between the lines.

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