The author and investigative reporter is joined in conversation about his book "Twilight in Hazard – An Appalachian Reckoning" by Joe Stephens, director of Princeton Univ.'s Program in Journalism.
From investigate reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia and on the soul of a shaken nation. Maimon is joined in discussion by the Director of Princeton University’s Program in Journalism, Joe Stephens.
Resisting the easy cliches and refusing to mythologize Central Appalachia, Maimon's "Twilight in Hazard" gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter's immersion in a place, and of his return years later, this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner's daughter, to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology.
Alan Maimon is an award-winning journalist, who worked in the Berlin bureau of The New York Times and is currently a staff investigator for Centurion Ministries, a NJ-based nonprofit that works to vindicate and free wrongfully convicted prisoners. In 2004, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
Joe Stephens is Director of the Program in Journalism and Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University, as well as three-time winner of the George Polk Award and three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former staff writer for The Washington Post.
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This event is part of the Labyrinth and the Library Live series of events and is co-sponsored by the library, Labyrinth Books and Princeton University's Humanities Council.