Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

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Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

Andrew Keen

Aug 17, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Eli Saslow, author of Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience.

Eli Saslow is a reporter for The Washington Post, and the author of Ten Letters, American Hunger, and Rising Out of Hatred, which won the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He was awarded The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2014 and was a Pulitzer Finalist in Feature Writing in 2013, 2016 and 2017. The series on which this book is based won the 2020 George Polk Award for Oral History.

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