Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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Episode 357: Michelle García
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Michelle García has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Oxford American. She directed the PBS film, Against Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies. “We have to see that within difficult stories there is a very important message of humanity triumphing over despair. If you don’t focus on joy, humanity is squashed. If all you see and all you narrate is pain, then you extinguish the possibility of joy and the important part of holding onto humanity.” Thanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @pistoleraprod michellegarciainc.com Rally+PEN America event on September 5 [00:42] “Against Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies” (PBS • 2012) [01:04] “The Border and the American Imagination” (The Baffler • 2018) [01:07] “Rewriting the West” (Guernica • 2019) [02:12] The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2019) [02:30] Evan Ratliff on CoinTalk [09:30] “New Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges (Michael Powell • Washington Post • 2005) [14:44] “Michelle Has A Polyamourous Relationship With Texas And New York” (KSTX • 2017) [21:05] “On the Texas Borderline, A Solid, if Invisible, Wall” (Washington Post • 2008) [23:16] “The War of Forgetting” (Guernica • 2015) [32:40] García’s AlJazeera America archive [33:55] “Myths of Mexico” (Columbia Journalism Review • 2009) [45:45] “The Year of the Heavy Moon” (Oxford American • 2017) [47:55] “My Name is Alex” (Oxford American • 2017) [48:50] “Mexico’s City of Dogs” (AlJazeera America • 2013) [1:05:45] “Searching for La Perdida” (Oxford American • 2016)
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Michelle García has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Oxford American. She directed the PBS film, Against Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies. “We have to see that within difficult stories there is a very important message of humanity triumphing over despair. If you don’t focus on joy, humanity is squashed. If all you see and all you narrate is pain, then you extinguish the possibility of joy and the important part of holding onto humanity.” Thanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @pistoleraprod michellegarciainc.com Rally+PEN America event on September 5 [00:42] “Against Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies” (PBS • 2012) [01:04] “The Border and the American Imagination” (The Baffler • 2018) [01:07] “Rewriting the West” (Guernica • 2019) [02:12] The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2019) [02:30] Evan Ratliff on CoinTalk [09:30] “New Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges (Michael Powell • Washington Post • 2005) [14:44] “Michelle Has A Polyamourous Relationship With Texas And New York” (KSTX • 2017) [21:05] “On the Texas Borderline, A Solid, if Invisible, Wall” (Washington Post • 2008) [23:16] “The War of Forgetting” (Guernica • 2015) [32:40] García’s AlJazeera America archive [33:55] “Myths of Mexico” (Columbia Journalism Review • 2009) [45:45] “The Year of the Heavy Moon” (Oxford American • 2017) [47:55] “My Name is Alex” (Oxford American • 2017) [48:50] “Mexico’s City of Dogs” (AlJazeera America • 2013) [1:05:45] “Searching for La Perdida” (Oxford American • 2016)
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