Warning: Updates about Crude World ahead. Proceed at your own risk.
The World, which is the great radio program co-produced by WGBH, PRI and the BBC, has aired an interview with me. They made me sound a lot sharper than I was in the studio. Thank you, wonderful people at The World, especially Jeb Sharp, ...
You know print editions of newspapers are dying when the Wall Street Journal runs a positive review of your book and you read it online and then blog about it and fail to realize, until three days later, that you never got a copy of the print edition it appeared in. And then you realize you don’t ...
This is nice. The New York Times Sunday Book Review runs a positive review by Michael Hirsh, a Newsweek correspondent who describes Crude World as “powerfully written.” ...
A pair of really nice reviews yesterday. Robert Rapier, a great energy blogger at theoildrum.com, calls Crude World “a fascinating read.” He writes, “I still have a stack of books that have been sent to ...
I have never met Steve Weinberg, who reviews books for USA Today, but I now owe him a beer or two. Weinberg has written a wonderful review of Crude World. ...
Harper’s Magazine asked me six questions about Crude World. I replied.
Foreign correspondents tend to be early adopters of technology. When the first laptops came along (before the word “laptop” really existed) I got one of them–a Tandy TRS-80, which had a screen that showed about eight lines of text. I’ve heard that the code for those things ...
In Gabon, it was known as “the Bongo system.” For 41 years, Omar Bongo ruled Gabon and stole its oil revenues. As the Times explains, the system consisted of “forsaking ...
A chapter of my book (publication is a week from today) focuses on a multi-billion dollar environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador. Joe Berlinger, director of the incomparable “Brother’s Keeper” and “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,” has just released his ...
