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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.
Boom Town is an elaborate, elliptical fun house of narratives: a story about a basketball team that’s really a story about a city, or maybe it’s the other way around; a story about a city that seems utterly unique and inexplicable, until you keep reading and start wondering if you’re really just reading a story about America itself. ... an embar...
By Sam Anderson. The Sunday Read: ‘I’ve Always Struggled With My Weight. Losing It Didn’t Mean Winning.’. A diet app helped writer Sam Anderson shed his extra Covid pounds — and reminded ...
Aug 21, 2018 · A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from ...
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About the Author. Sam Anderson is currently a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Formerly a book critic for New York Magazine and regular contributor to Slate, Anderson’s journalism and essays have won numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.
Aug 21, 2018 · By Sam Anderson. Illustrated. 427 pp. Crown. $28. Within the first few pages of “Boom Town,” Sam Anderson offers readers a pre-emptive, wryly compassionate renunciation of his subject that...
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin