Eliza Griswold (who visited September 27) contributes an article about fracking in Pennsylvania to this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
"In Amwell Township, your opinion of fracking tends to correspond with how much money you’re making and with how close you live to the gas wells, chemical ponds, pipelines and compressor stations springing up in the area. Many of those who live nearby fear that a leak in the plastic liner of a chemical pond could drip into a watershed or that a truck spill could send carcinogens into a field of beef cattle. (According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 65 Marcellus wells drilled this year have been cited for faulty cement casings, which could result in leaks.) But for many other residents, including Haney’s neighbors, the risks seem small, and the benefits — clean fuel, economic development — far outweigh them." More.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Situation Normal, All Fracked Up
Friday, September 23, 2011
"a beautifully written book, full of arresting stories"
Here's the New York Times review of Eliza Griswold's bestselling work of international reportage, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which appeared August 19, 2010....
“The Tenth Parallel” is a beautifully written book, full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue — whether fundamentalism leads to violence — which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions. In this tropical region where monsoons and jungles give way to desert, she looks at how history, resources, climate and demographic trends have combined with and shaped the struggle among religions. More.
Griswold Profiles Leymah Gbowee
Globe-trotting journalist Eliza Griswold (who visits 9/27) contributes a profile of Liberian peace activist and women's advocate Leymah Gbowee to this week's issues of Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
"Libyan Proverbs"
The "Work in Progress" feature of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux website has some new poems by journalist-poet Eliza Griswold, who visits this coming Tuesday, September 27.
Here's an excerpt from her poem, "Libyan Proverbs":
He who is to be hanged can insult the Pasha.
In the house of a man who has been hanged
do not talk of rope. Much shouting and crowds
over a hedgehog’s slaughter. The funeral
is big but the corpse is a mouse.
I lick my grindstone and sleep in peace.
Griswold received the 2010 Rome Prize for poetry.