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- I read, on the most basic level, because it makes me happy. It calms my brain down. My wife and I sometimes refer to this as “textual healing”: if I’m in a wretched mood, feeling oppressed by the world, I can go off with a book for an hour and suddenly be myself again.
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May 13, 2011 · By Adam Sternbergh. May 13, 2011. I’ll never forget the first time I read Sam Anderson’s article about reading Luca Spaghetti’s memoir. It was early in the week, and I’d just sent Sam an e-mail...
Nov 5, 2018 · Sam Anderson: My name is Sam Anderson. I wrote a book called Boom Town. It’s about Oklahoma City, which I like to argue is the most secretly interesting place in America. WS: Sam Anderson is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and has written for Slate, New York Magazine, and many, many more. He’s also won the National Magazine ...
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Sep 26, 2018 · Sam Anderson opens his book Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a...
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Sam Anderson is an American author, who is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Boom Town, a book about Oklahoma City. In 2017, he won a National Magazine Award for his article about Michelangelo's David. Prior to this, he was a book critic for the magazine New York.
Aug 21, 2018 · Within the first few pages of “Boom Town,” Sam Anderson offers readers a pre-emptive, wryly compassionate renunciation of his subject that most writers would never have the nerve to make. He...
Aug 24, 2018 · Anderson waits until near the book’s end before addressing the event many Americans associate most indelibly with the city, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh.
Sam Anderson is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. An award-winning journalist, he has been a book critic for New York Magazine and a regular contributor to Slate. He lives in New York. Boom Town, published in 2018 by Penguin Random House, is his debut novel. Ed Battistella: I really enjoyed Boom Town.
