A newsletter for independent journalism โ my stories and others', interviews, reporting, writing and more.
Journalist/author of five nonfiction books. Latest: THE PERFECT TUBA, about tuba players/band directors. Before that: DREAMLAND (OxyContin/heroin), & THE LEAST OF US (fentanyl/meth). It all fits. Newsletter is all that+ Real. Independent. Journalism.
The Gift of Need newsletter delves into how need in our lives can be transformed and benefit us individually and communally. Weekly articles are from my current book project. Opiate Nation was my award-winning memoir.
Writer, bookworm, salsa dancer, heart in San Francisco, Italy, and Mexico. Loves Oxford commas, open-water swimming, and Peter.
How the energy transition and digital technology are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murderโand how we can do better.
I write about crime and drugs, police and gangster politics, guerrillas and psychedelics, and the people who live and die through it all.