New York, NY
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
A discussion about oil with Ed Kashi, author of Curse of the Black Gold.
Author: Peter Maass
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.
Basra + Oil = Poverty
Iraq’s reserves of oil are among the largest in the world yet the country has endured all but non-stop warfare and dictatorship for much of the last few decades. A large portion of its oil is located around Basra, in the south of the country. As the New York Times ...
New York University, School of Law
New York, NY
Furman Hall
Lester Pollack Room
245 Sullivan Street
New York, NY 10012
A discussion about Crude World, co-sponsored by the Institute for International Law and Justice and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. RSVP to ryank@exchange.law.nyu.edu.
Opposite of White
I shot this picture at the new exhibit of Roni Horn’s work at the Whitney Museum. The piece, entitled “Opposite of White,” looks familiar…
Maassapalooza, the British edition
Nice reviews of Crude World in the British press…
The Economist
Financial Times
The Independent
The Telegraph
New Statesman
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
Capitol Extension Room E2.014
Austin, TX
Discussion about Crude World with John Spong, staff writer at Texas Monthly. For details please click here.
Brazos Bookstore
Houston, TX
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet Street.
Houston, TX 77005
A reading about Crude World. Matt Simmons will introduce me. For details, please see the Brazos listing.
Judging a Book by Its Cover
I’m intrigued by the art of book design. Some designs are great, some less so. A few deserve to be placed in museums, they’re that good. I’m a huge fan of the Crude World cover that Peter Mendelsund designed for Knopf. Now comes the cover for the ...
Baby Einstein Is Not So Smart, After All
A few years ago, inquiring journalists began writing about the deception behind Baby Einstein videos, which promised to make toddlers smarter. Not only were the videos of no educational value, they could be harmful; the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that children ...
The Page 99 Test
A few weeks ago I received an email from Marshal Zeringue, who runs several literary blogs including one that’s called “The Page 99 Test.” Its title comes from Ford Madox Ford, who once advised, “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the ...