More Booms In A Railroad Boomtown: The Fastest Growing Hamlet In New Mexico
Union Pacific’s new train yard in Santa Teresa, New Mexico is 11.5 miles long and a mile wide. But with the deal announced in Beijing today, it might not be big enough.
Trains project
“World On Fire” Finalist for The PEN Literary Non-Fiction Award
A World On Fire: Life and Death In A New Orleans Squat is a finalist for the PenUSA literary non-fiction award, but alas did not win.
A Piece Of The Fire – – Notebooks Rescued From The Warehouse Fire Arrive In My House
A box of items rescued from the NOLA warehouse fire arrives in my house carrying a mystery in the soot and crumbled pages.
Talk Of The Nation features “A World On Fire”
On The Talk Of The Nation my interview with host Neal Conan was surprisingly cheerful considering the subject was eight young people who died in a fire. The callers, both adults who had been travelers and kids who were traveling, talked not about danger, but about the joy of pure freedom and few responsibilities.
Travelers – – World On Fire featured on WBUR “Here And Now”
WBUR “Here and Now” featured my Boston Review story, and the comments posted under it show how much the traveling kids’ lifestyle of hopping trains and scrounging a livelihood intrigues, infuriates and touches people’s imaginations.
Canadian Drive Time Radio features “A World On Fire”
My appearance on Montreal drive-time radio surprised me as the interviewer wanted to speak about my daughter and me, not about those who died in the fire.