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Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz
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Amy Wilentz

Amy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier, of Martyrs' Crossing, (a novel) and of I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger. She has won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award; in 1990, she was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes for The New Yorker and The Nation and teaches in the Literary Journalism program at U.C. Irvine.

Farewell, Fred Voodoo will be released on January 08, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
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Rainy Season will be released on April 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Apr 13, 2010
Rainy Season is now available in Trade Paperback
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen will be released on August 14, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen is now available in Trade Paperback
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen will be released on August 14, 2007 in
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen will be released on August 22, 2006 in eBook
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I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen will be released on August 22, 2006 in
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Rainy Season will be released on June 15, 1990 in Trade Paperback
Jun 15, 1990
Rainy Season is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 15, 1990
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

Authors on the Web

Orange County Weekly, April 24, 2012
...remarks at no one in particular. It all started because Robert Scheer was on the panel, nestled between Amy Wilentz, the author of several books, and Joel Achenbach, who recently wrote the book A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea about the BP Oil Spill. For...
Wicked Local Stoneham, December 1, 2011
...are also our best teachers. They bring us knowledge and understanding and great storytelling. Food unlocks many doors. Amy Wilentz, in “Sugarland,” writes: “It’s hard to eat anything in Haiti without having a political epiphany.” For instance,...
Zimbio, November 21, 2011
...Literature Timothy Tackett, Professor of History Touraj Daryaee, History Department Carolyn P. Boyd, Professor Emerita, Department of History Amy Wilentz, Professor of English and Literary Journalism Victoria Silver, Associate Professor of English Alice...
Wicked Local Wakefield, November 14, 2011
...are also our best teachers. They bring us knowledge and understanding and great storytelling. Food unlocks many doors. Amy Wilentz, in “Sugarland,” writes: “It’s hard to eat anything in Haiti without having a political epiphany.” For instance,...
Wicked Local Avon, October 26, 2011
...are also our best teachers. They bring us knowledge and understanding and great storytelling. Food unlocks many doors. Amy Wilentz, in “Sugarland,” writes: “It’s hard to eat anything in Haiti without having a political epiphany.” For instance,...
Al Jadid, July 8, 2011
...In a recent media review article published in the Nation magazine, novelist and former New Yorker magazine correspondent Amy Wilentz wrote, "So I was led reluctantly to the magazine, but when I looked into its back issues, I discovered that it contains a...
Huffington Post Canada, February 23, 2012
...journalists are, well, professors--the faculty list for Berkeley includes Adam Hochschild, for Columbia Howard French, for UC Irvine Amy Wilentz, and so on. The current "Two Cultures" divide is significant enough that some academics are leery of having...
Huffington Post Canada, February 23, 2012
...journalists are, well, professors--the faculty list for Berkeley includes Adam Hochschild, for Columbia Howard French, for UC Irvine Amy Wilentz, and so on. The current "Two Cultures" divide is significant enough that some academics are leery of having...
Huffington Post, February 22, 2012
...journalists are, well, professors--the faculty list for Berkeley includes Adam Hochschild, for Columbia Howard French, for UC Irvine Amy Wilentz, and so on. The current "Two Cultures" divide is significant enough that some academics are leery of having...
Huffington Post, February 22, 2012
...journalists are, well, professors--the faculty list for Berkeley includes Adam Hochschild, for Columbia Howard French, for UC Irvine Amy Wilentz, and so on. The current "Two Cultures" divide is significant enough that some academics are leery of having...
Huffington Post, February 22, 2012
...journalists are, well, professors--the faculty list for Berkeley includes Adam Hochschild, for Columbia Howard French, for UC Irvine Amy Wilentz, and so on. The current "Two Cultures" divide is significant enough that some academics are leery of having...
Qatar Tribune, February 12, 2012
...words “Aba impinite” — down with impunity — in blue spray paint on the court’s white wall. (Amy Wilentz is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier...
New York Times, February 8, 2012
...They painted the words Aba impinite down with impunity in blue spray paint on the courts white wall. Amy Wilentz is the author of “The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier...