Horse Crazy – Sarah Maslin Nir
Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times staff reporter, Sarah Maslin Nir, joins me for this episode. We discuss her new book, Horse Crazy – The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal.
We discuss every persons fascination and love of horses, the lesser-known facts about horses and her own moving relationship with horses. We also discuss the similarities and challenges of writing a memoir compared to an investigative reporting. Have a listen and learn more about our relationship with horses, their history and our love affair with these beautiful animals. Enjoy!
BIO:
Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for The New York Times. Nir was a Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for “Unvarnished,” her more than yearlong investigation into New York City’s nail salon industry that documented the exploitative labor practices and health issues manicurists face. Before becoming a staff reporter, Nir freelanced for eleven sections of the paper, traveling to the Alaskan wilderness in search of people who prefer to live in isolation, and to post-earthquake Haiti. She began as the New York Times’s nightlife columnist, covering 252 parties in eighteen months, and continued on to a career that has taken her from covering kidnappings by terrorists in Benin, West Africa, to wildfires in California, and everything in between. A born and raised Manhattanite, Nir earned a masters at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and graduated from Columbia University, where she studied politics and philosophy. She is the author of Horse Crazy. She loves horses.