Jonathan Blitzer
American journalist; staff writer at The New Yorker covering immigration and politics, and author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (2024).
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Recommends What You Have Heard Is True
Um my second recommendation is a memoir by Carolyn Forche called What You Have Heard Is True. Um when she was 27, she was living in El Salvador at the start of what became the Salvadorian civil war. And it's sort of a reflection on what that period was like for her. It's incredibly haunting and beautiful. um and very much relevant to the current conversation.
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Recommends The Known World
Uh my first would be uh a novel called The Known World by Edward P. Jones uh about Auntie Billum Virginia. One of the most astonishing novels I've ever read. Uh one of my favorite American novels. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
youtube.com 6 Jan 2026
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