VIDEO: Anthony Doerr and Robert Guest on America and Migrations
Three new videos this week, two from writer Anthony Doerr (you can find his books on Powell’s Books) and one from Robert Guest, the Lexington columnist for The Economist.
Fiction writer and memoirist Anthony Doerr is the author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. Here’s “Am I Still Here?”, about how networked technologies can alienate us from nature and the things that matter most. Read the text on the Orion site.
And in his beautiful “Butterflies on a Wheel,” Doerr’s narrator recounts having “traveled the great unspooling latticework of American interstates,” leading to a chance encounter between migrants in western Wyoming.
“What if the torrents of animals migrating past us every year left behind traces of their roots?…The skies above our fields would become a loom, the continents would be bundled in thread.”More:
Anthony has essays in McSweeney’s #32 and the upcoming #33, a full color newspaper.
Locate his upcoming appearances on his personal site.
Next summer, Scribner will publish his fourth book, Memory Wall, a collection of six stories.
Robert Guest covers American politics and culture as the Lexington columnist for The Economist. Despite some predictions otherwise, Guest suggests that America is uniquely positioned to be the world’s next hyperpower because the country has an unparalleled ability to attract immigrants from all over the world.
“America’s greatest strength, in my view, is that people want to live here.”
More:
Learn about talent clustering through the CEOs for Cities Talent Dividend Tour.
Contribute to better cities with the just-announced Code For America.
Read Robert’s “Coming Out of the Dark” essay from The Economist The World in 2010 print edition.
What do you think about these videos? Let us know in the comments.
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