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Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series, and This Brilliant Darkness. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International's Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper's; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where he lives in the woods with many animals.
At once heartbreaking and quietly hopeful.... These dispatches immerse readers in the currents threatening to pull a nation apart, while skirting the nihilism that could drag us under.--Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland Brilliant, humane, and incisive, Jeff Sharlet illuminates the fault lines of a fractured nation. His meticulous reporting connects the dots on a stark but hopeful journey.--Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From In these reports from America's different corners there comes a feeling for why we're so broken and what it might take to heal. Brilliant, lucid, incisive, meticulously reported--Jeff Sharlet is at his best here even when we are not.--Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Jeff Sharlet's rich narrative prose unpacks a worldview in which US democracy is an existential threat. These essays are an essential read for all Americans.--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works Riveting, insightful.... Weaving religion, hate, hope, and fear into stories that catch us unaware, Jeff Sharlet confronts us with the realities of the shifting American psyche--a must-read in order to understand the conflicting voices and tensions in America today.--Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism That America is deeply divided is undeniable. Yet underneath this polarization lies a rich tapestry of human experience, stories of individuals inspired by myths, driven by fears, and searching for meaning. At once unexpectedly sympathetic and profoundly disquieting, Jeff Sharlet's work shows how the task of binding our nation together is a daunting one, but the fate of American democracy depends on it.--Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
