The Agony Column

January 18, 2025Loved recording this in-depth podcast at KQED in San Francisco.

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GQ (UK Edition)

January 18, 2025The Skies gets picked as one of the summer’s most essential reads.

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The Washington Post

January 18, 2025“A gripping portrait of a chaotic time.”

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BBC News

January 18, 2025A tremendous little video segment about The Skies, complete with vintage footage and narration by yours truly.

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The Longform Podcast

January 18, 2025In which I discuss storyboarding, screenplay writing, and Sunderland.

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KQED’s “Forum”

January 18, 2025A great radio interview in the Bay Area, with call-ins from some skyjack victims.

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CBC’s “The Current”

January 18, 2025A lovely conversation with Canada’s finest morning radio show.

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The New York Times Book Review

January 18, 2025Wonderfully insightful stuff: “Koerner has a rare empathy, and by acknowledging the fullness of their strange story, he suggests a deeper truth about the nature of extremism.”

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TheAtlantic.com

January 18, 2025High praise from James Fallows: “One of those perfect tales.”

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The A.V. Club

January 18, 2025The pop culture site of record shouts out The Skies as one of the year’s best.

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Boing Boing

January 18, 2025The mother of all geek sites gets in the spirit.

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Portland Reading

7:30 p.m. @ Ristretto Roasters 555 NE Couch St. (at 6th) Portland, OR 97232 (503) 284-6767 Co-sponsored by the wonderful folks at Beef & Books, BookMob Portland, and the Media Institute for Social Change More details here

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Bookforum

January 18, 2025“Original and riveting.”

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San Francisco Chronicle

January 18, 2025“Captures the tenor of the times with a splendid and stylish tale.”

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Knoxville Metro Pulse

January 18, 2025Love this thoughtful take on The Skies from the great state of Tennessee: “Honestly, I don’t know how anyone could read this book and not find it enthralling.”

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Ask the Pilot

January 18, 2025Big thanks for aviation maestro Patrick Smith for this thoughtful review.

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Outside

January 18, 2025In which I reveal that the dumbest skyjacker of all time was actually a Stanford grad.

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CNN.com

January 18, 2025An entertaining Q&A (plus slideshow) with the granddaddy of cable news channels.

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Anil Dash

January 18, 2025The wisest tech maven in America posts a marvelously insightful review of The Skies.

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The Los Angeles Times

January 18, 2025The newspaper whose sports section taught me to read heaps praise upon The Skies.

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