Dan Barry is a journalist and author of THE BOYS IN THE BUNKHOUSE and BOTTOM OF THE 33RD. Among his many journalistic honors are a share of a Pulitzer Prize: a George Polk Award; an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting (for coverage of the first anniversary of 9/11); a Mike Berger Award for in-depth human interest reporting; and the PEN/ESPN Literary Award for Sports Writing. He lives with his family in Maplewood, N.J.
"This Land reminds us that the greatest strength of the American
character is America's characters: men and women who are resilient,
gracious, eccentric, world-weary, bright-eyed, funny, complex,
tragic, surly and yes, even, kind. Dan Barry proves once again that
in his intelligent company, attention paid is its own reward. He
assures us, too, that eloquence, wit, and compassion - all the
virtues we need now - have not been purged from American discourse
and are alive and well in these pages."--Alice McDermott
"A fine collection of Barry's smooth-as-silk and keenly observed
columns for the New York Times. He travels to post-Katrina New
Orleans, witnesses an execution in Tennessee, talks with the
minister who befriended serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Barry finds
beauty in the tragic, the bizarre, the overlooked."--The Star
Tribune
"Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the
American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a
contemporary Steinbeck."--Colum McCann
"Dan Barry is an American treasure, and This Land is a beautifully
conceived, essential book on American lives and places. His
understanding and love of the American experience-small towns,
fractured lives, beauty, suffering, and the physical landscape-is
unparalleled. I'm grateful to him, and for him, for chronicling our
lives, honoring our history and recognizing our connection to each
other."--Rosanne Cash
"Story to story, this collection of reportage from Dan Barry for
The New York Times might appear to be what it is - old journalism.
And yet, what is actually here, a decade of stories about crumbling
traditions, breaks in trust and flickers of grace, is the most
comprehensive single-book portrait of the United States (circa
2007-2016) in a long time. The accumulated power of these pieces -
angry, corny, inspiring, mournful and insane - takes on the shape
of a salute to durable, keenly observed newspaper writing."--The
Chicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of 2018
"There is something incrementally, and in the end almost infinitely
heartbreaking and transformational about Dan Barry's haunting
anthology... With a Dickensian breadth of curiosity and compassion,
Barry has been determined to shadow and record a decade in the
quotidian flow of national life-events that are all the more
indelible, mysterious and uncanny for their specificity."--Ric
Burns
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