Nov. 7, 2023
In Episode 30 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen speaks with two leading non-fiction authors about their craft and the challenge of turning bad news into a great read:
How do two of America's leading nonfiction writers turn some of the biggest issues affecting us into juicy narratives that change hearts and minds — and maybe even policies? Patrick Radden Keefe on how he rendered the opioid crisis as a dramatic tale of money, power, and human suffering in his book Empire of Pain, and Elizabeth Kolbert on how she illuminates what we are losing as global temperatures rise, as in her most recent book, Under a White Sky.
Listen to the episode here, and see the full set of episodes here.