My New Book

Just a quick note to mention that my new book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, will be published in September. The early reviews are encouraging. Publishers Weekly says Crude World is “heartfelt and beautifully crafted.” Kirkus describes it as “breathless, alarming evidence of the harm that oil inflicts on the world.” Knopf (okay, Knopf is my publisher, so this is akin to quoting my mother) calls Crude World “a stunning and revealing examination of oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.” Knopf has posted more info here and the link for pre-orders on Amazon is here. The book’s minimalist cover, adjacent to this post, can be enlarged if you click it. I plan to blog more frequently in the coming months, and my website will be redesigned before the end of summer, so please stay tuned!

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. View all posts by Peter Maass