Helen Thorpe

Author

air date: Dec 14, 2017

Author Helen Thorpe talks about her book, “The Newcomers,” long-form journalism and her experience as First Lady of Colorado.

Helen Thorpe is an author and journalist who has been a staff writer for the New York Observer, The New Yorker and Texas Monthly. She has also been published in the New York Times Magazine, Slate and numerous other publications. Her radio stories have aired on “This American Life” and “Sound Print.”

• Full Episode
• Audience Q&A
• The Newcomers
• Long-form journalism
• The refugee crisis

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