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How I Read

You know print editions of newspapers are dying when the Wall Street Journal runs a positive review of your book and you read it online and then blog about it and fail to realize, until three days later, that you never got a copy of the print edition it appeared in. And then you realize you don’t ... (Read more)

Inside the Soul of an Oilman

The Big Money
September 22, 2009
(The following excerpt from “Crude World” was published by TheBigMoney.com.)

I liked most oil executives I have met. They were hardworking men with a thrill for the deal, a fear of failure, and a moral compass that occasionally ... (Read more)

Oil and Cobras

This is nice. The New York Times Sunday Book Review runs a positive review by Michael Hirsh, a Newsweek correspondent who describes Crude World as “powerfully written.” Hirsh ... (Read more)

Miller Center for Public Affairs

Charlottesville, VA
The Miller Center for Public Affairs
University of Virginia
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, Virginia

A lecture/reading.

“I Couldn’t Put It Down”

A pair of really nice reviews yesterday. Robert Rapier, a great energy blogger at theoildrum.com, calls Crude World “a fascinating read.” He writes, “I still have a stack of books that have been sent to ... (Read more)

NYU Center for Global Affairs

New York, NY
NYU Center for Global Affairs
15 Barclay Street, 4th floor
(Between Broadway and Church Street)
New York NY

A conversation about Crude World with James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs. For more info, go to http://www.scps.nyu.edu/areas-of-study/global-affairs/public-events/in-print/

USA Today Forever

I have never met Steve Weinberg, who reviews books for USA Today, but I now owe him a beer or two. Weinberg has written a wonderful review of Crude World. ... (Read more)

Six Questions

Harper’s Magazine asked me six questions about Crude World. I replied.

Maass, Facebook & Twitter: Together at Last

Foreign correspondents tend to be early adopters of technology. When the first laptops came along (before the word “laptop” really existed) I got one of them–a Tandy TRS-80, which had a screen that showed about eight lines of text. I’ve heard that the code for those things ... (Read more)

The Oddest and the Best

I’ve never worked with Antonin Kratochvil, the photographer, but I know him slightly and love his work, which is beautiful and disturbing (perhaps an appropriate description of Antonin, too). Outside magazine has just published ... (Read more)