Lauren Markham is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and VQR. Her new book is A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.

“It took me a while to figure out that this is actually a book about storytelling, about journalistic storytelling, about the kind of myths we spin culturally and politically, about history, about current events, and the role of journalism within all of that, and my role as a journalist.”

Show notes:

• @LaurenMarkham_
• laurenmarkham.info
• Markham on Longform
• 01:00 The Far Away Brothers (Crown • 2018)
• 03:00oaklandinternational.org
• 28:00 How the Word Is Passed (Clint Smith • Little, Brown and Company • 2021)
• 38:00 “How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees” (Mother Jones • March 2022)
• 44:00 “For Me, With Love and Squalor” (Longreads • June 2018)

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