Jacques Leslie will discuss today's global water crisis as he reads from his Harper's Magazine cover story, "Running Dry," and his award-winning book, Deep Water.
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Nov.18.2010 - 6:47 pm
Everything’s in play, a friend said the other day.
The phrase has been caroming around my brain ever since. Within a week after he said that, a fire consumed 166 homes...
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Sep.29.2008 - 6:06 pm
A few months ago the Presidential election seemed a self-contained narrative, an uncomplicated drama starring Barack and Hillary, and then Barack and John. Democrats feared...
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Sep.14.2008 - 9:22 pm
David Foster Wallace’s dismaying suicide sent me back to “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” his seminal, riotous essay on taking a Caribbean cruise. I had...
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Jun.09.2008 - 9:37 pm
"The Tipping Point," Bill McKibben's post on climate change, is concise, urgent, and entirely worth reading. It's at:
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2012
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... Deep Water is not a book about dams, as it were, but about three people whose lives have been lived in the tall shadows of dams. This makes all the difference. It renders in...
About Jacques
Jacques Leslie began his writing career in 1972 as a Los Angeles Times war correspondent in Vietnam, where he became the first American journalist to enter Viet Cong territory. He spent six years as a correspondent, and was stationed successively in Saigon,...
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International Rivers
Resource Renewal Institute
Earth Island Institute
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