The Wager Explainer- a new podcast, in which I talk about Jenkins’ Ear, the Prize of all the Oceans, murder and mutiny, featuring the best selling David Grann

It’s THE WAGER

🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hist…

What an enthralling new book by Ken McGoogan, which provides fresh answers to this Arctic mystery.

“I had staked WAY too much of my identity in being someone people knew… When that was ripped away from me, I was forced to reckon with that fact.”
My friend Chris Cillizza reflects on how he dealt with being laid off from CNN, a year later: chriscillizza.substack.com/p/happy-annive…

I was honored to write with Jim Gray, a former Osage chief whose great-grandfather was killed during the Reign of Terror, about recent efforts to suppress teaching this history in schools in Oklahoma and beyond.
nytimes.com/2023/10/20/opi…

Don't miss the incomparable Lawrence Wright tonight at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC discussing his whip-smart and hysterical new novel, Mr. Texas. I'll be asking him lots about his writing process, so I can steal lessons.

For the very few who may notice, I’ve decided to take a prolonged hiatus from twitter, or whatever it’s now being called.

ce livre formidable débarque en librairie ce vendredi.

Rick Danko, just months before he died. 'It Makes No Difference' youtube.com/watch?v=YL7s8O…

Franzen on the problem of nature writing. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Florida schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new DeSantis restrictions on school curriculums. Some schools will now only assign excerpts from the plays because of what one teacher calls the “raunchiness” of some plays like “Romeo and Juliet.” tampabay.com/news/education…

Was great to chat in-depth with Alessandra Codinha about writing and research and being careful with your inspirations: open.substack.com/pub/alessandra…

In this video you can hear & see what we hear & see in Kyiv during Russia’s air attacks. The buzzing sound is the Iranian Shahed drone which Ukrainians call flying mopeds or flying lawnmowers. Air defenses destroy it, sending debris falling to the ground.

And here's the unsealed indictment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Former President Trump has been informed he has been indicted by a federal grand jury regarding the special counsel’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News.   Katherine Faulders John Santucci

A must read from my colleague Joshua Yaffa:

Insightful piece: Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive is portrayed as more successful by enemy soldiers and their cheerleaders than by Western analysts
newlinesmag.com/argument/russi…

Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did
nytimes.com/2023/07/29/boo…

I got my start reporting for newspapers in Southeast Oklahoma (where I grew up), so this hits close to home. But it’s also just an extraordinary story — and jarring. Highest recommendation:

I hope there’s peace for Sinéad at last

A little over a year after her son took his own life at 17. This is just awful news. irishtimes.com/culture/music/….