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Writing Westward features conversations with writers of the North American West, sampling from a variety of disciplines and subfields. The podcast is hosted and produced by BYU Redd Center associate director and professor of history, Brenden W. Rensink.
077 - Robert Sullivan - Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
Writing Westward Podcast
1 hour 13 minutes
4 months ago
077 - Robert Sullivan - Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
A conversation with historian Robert Sullivan about their book
Double Exposure:
Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)
Robert Sullivan is a writer and journalist who has written for The New Yorker, New York Times, Vogue, and A Public Space, among other outlets. He is a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over, with titles including:
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City (Knopf Doubleday, 1999)
A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could (Scribner, 2002)
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury, 2005)
How Not to Get Rich: Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad (Bloomsbury, 2005)
Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark (Bloomsbury, 2006)
The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant (Harper Perennial, 2009)
My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
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Writing Westward Podcast
Writing Westward features conversations with writers of the North American West, sampling from a variety of disciplines and subfields. The podcast is hosted and produced by BYU Redd Center associate director and professor of history, Brenden W. Rensink.
