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Turning Bad News into a Great Read
Episode 30

Turning Bad News into a Great Read

In the Room with Peter Bergen · Audible Originals

November 7, 202343m 15s

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Show Notes

How do two of America's leading nonfiction writers turn some of the biggest issues affecting us into juicy narratives that change hearts and minds — and maybe even policies? Patrick Radden Keefe on how he rendered the opioid crisis as a dramatic tale of money, power, and human suffering in his book Empire of Pain, and Elizabeth Kolbert on how she illuminates what we are losing as global temperatures rise, as in her most recent book, Under a White Sky.

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