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Joel Achenbach
Here's my book website: http://www.aholeatthebottomofthesea.com/Here's my boilerplate bio:Joel Achenbach has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since 1990, started the newsroom's first online column in 1999 and the paper's first blog, Achenblog, in 2005. His seventh book, "A Hole at the... show more

Here's my book website: http://www.aholeatthebottomofthesea.com/Here's my boilerplate bio:Joel Achenbach has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since 1990, started the newsroom's first online column in 1999 and the paper's first blog, Achenblog, in 2005. His seventh book, "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea," an account of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and its aftermath, will be [whoa, make that WAS] published in April 2011 by Simon & Schuster. His syndicated column Why Things Are (1988-1996), which he began when he worked at The Miami Herald, appeared in 50 newspapers and three collections of the column were published by Ballantine Books. He has been a regular contributor to National Geographic since 1998, writing stories on such topics as dinosaurs, particle physics, earthquakes, extraterrestrial life, megafauna extinction and the electrical grid. Now assigned to the Post's national desk, he writes on science and politics and helped cover the Deepwater Horizon story. A 1982 graduate of Princeton University, he has taught journalism at Princeton and Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary Stapp, and three daughters. In case that's too confusing, here's the basic point: I'm something that used to be known as "a newspaper reporter."
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Andra
Andra rated it 12 years ago
This was a gripping book. It brought back very vivid memories of that summer, and accurately captured the feeling that pervaded the atmosphere - the desperation, the despair, the sickening nausea at the pit of my stomach. Even though I didn't live there, I drove down to the coast myself, to witness ...
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 15 years ago
I love books like this in which the author raises universal questions about how things work and then supplies the answers in short humorous essays. Fun casual reading, easy to pick up and put down again.
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