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Charles C. Mann “1493″ 18 Oct. 2011
What do Italian tomato sauce, Florida oranges and Thai chili peppers have in common? All are products that are not native to those lands. Every American knows that 1492 was when Columbus “discovered” the New World. It was also the moment when, biologically, the world changed. In his previous bestselling book, 1491, Charles C. Mann ...
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Isabel Wilkerson “The Warmth of Other Suns” 28 Sept. 2011
Almost everything you know about the black American experience relates to one thing: the so-called Great Migration, when millions of people left harsh conditions in the South for a better life in the cities of the North. Isabel Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize this year for her groundbreaking first book The Warmth of Other Suns: ...
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James Gleick “The Information” 1 Nov. 2011
We live in the “information age”–but what is information, actually? In human terms, one might say information is the food that nourishes the mind. But how is it prepared and consumed? James Gleick has been called one of the greatest science writers of all time. Of his previous books, Chaos introduced a new science and ...
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David Sedaris Carré 25 Sept. 2011
David Sedaris, NPR Humorist and Best-selling Author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, will read old and new material at the Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam on 25 September 2011. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great ...
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Saul Leiter: “New York Reflections” Exposition 24 Oct. 2011
Saul Leiter created a unique oeuvre of painterly photographs of street life in New York. His compositions, often complex and riddled with reflections and shadows, are the most exceptional feature of his work. The Jewish Historical Museum presents the first broad retrospective of the work of this photographer in the Netherlands. Saul Leiter started shooting ...
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Intern for NOS Washington (Dutch)
NOS Bureau Washington brengt het Amerikaanse nieuws op radio en televisie via kruisgesprekken en reportages. De twee correspondenten en producer bloggen daarnaast voor de website en maken extra verhalen voor nos.nl. Bureau Washington werkt met name voor het Acht Uur Journaal, Radio 1 Journaal en nos.nl, maar levert bijvoorbeeld ook nieuws aan Met het Oog ...