2 THE NEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 23, 2020
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PERSONAL HISTORY
Can someone stave off the grief of
losing one pet by getting another?
Sarah Miller on the bridge dog.
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Laura Curran, a county executive on
Long Island, looks back on the first
wave of the coronavirus.
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Suki Kim (“Follow the Leader,” p. 46)
is an investigative journalist and a
novelist. Her latest book is “Without
You, There Is No Us.”
Shane Bauer (“An Unstoppable Force,”
p. 28), the author of “American Prison,”
is at work on a book about Americans
who fought in Syria.
Tracy K. Smith (Poem, p. 40) served
two terms as the United States Poet
Laureate. Her poetry collections include
“Wade in the Water” and “Such Color,”
which will be out in 2021.
Kadir Nelson (Cover) won a Caldecott
Medal for his illustrations for Kwame
Alexander’s book-length poem, “The
Undefeated.”
Ruth Franklin (Books, p. 71) is the au-
thor of “Shirley Jackson,” which received
the 2016 National Book Critics Circle
Award for biography.
Salman Rushdie (Fiction, p. 56) has
written fourteen novels, including, most
recently, “Quichotte.”
Andrew Marantz (“The Anti-Coup,”
p. 36), a staff writer, has been contrib-
uting to The New Yorker since 2011. He
is the author of “Antisocial.”
Jill Lepore (“The Trump Papers,” p. 20)
is a professor of history at Harvard.
Her fourteenth book, “If Then,” came
out in September.
Steve Coll (Comment, p. 13), a staff writer,
is the dean of Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism. He most
recently published “Directorate S.”
Alexandra Schwartz (The Talk of the
Town, p. 18) joined the magazine in 2013
and became a staff writer in 2016.
Zach Zimmerman (Shouts & Murmurs,
p. 27), a standup comedian and a writer,
released the album “Clean Comedy”
last year.
Kirmen Uribe (Poem, p. 60) is a Basque
writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
His novel “Bilbao-New York-Bilbao”
was awarded the 2009 Spanish National
Literature Prize for Narrative.
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