Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck
Joshua Prager: 尋找弄斷我脖子的人
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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人口只有 15,000 的小鎮 Kfar Kara
去尋找一名男子和些許平靜
那個停著他的藍色卡車的地方
去拿我從球場上贏得的披薩
那天上午提供的證詞
那天上午提供的證詞
以希伯來語打的招呼
他在車禍中傷得多重時
壘球比賽中嘗試上肩投球
壘球比賽中嘗試上肩投球
似乎是一份荒謬至極的禮物
給弄斷你該死的脖子的人?
想像等待我的會是什麼
Abed或許會朝我吐口水
如同曾經浮現過無數次的想法
將我的人生一分為二之前?
並非身體和與生俱來的天賦及缺陷?
試圖從船上撲進芝加哥某個湖中
七首美妙的馬祖卡舞曲
我的殘疾從何而來
他們不曾告訴任何人的事
表現出同樣反應後
一名相貌普通、中等身材的男子
未曾說完的悲慘故事
未曾說完的悲慘故事
因為他不肯讓路
因為他不肯讓路
那天上午他所說的證詞中
那天上午他所說的證詞中
因為我並非為了尋求真相而來
「我國警方對差勁的駕駛不夠嚴厲」
「我國警方對差勁的駕駛不夠嚴厲」
卡車駕照被吊銷十年
撇清關係的人套交情
面帶笑容的殘障人士做出錯誤解讀
面帶笑容的殘障人士做出錯誤解讀
他們曾經歷過更悲慘的遭遇
塑造我們大多數人的主要因素
塑造我們大多數人的主要因素
我們的使命十分明確:
你或許能真正享受所擁有的一切
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Prager - JournalistJoshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own.
Why you should listen
Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. George Will has described his work as "exemplary journalistic sleuthing."
His new book, 100 Years, is a list of literary quotations on every age from birth to one hundred. Designed by Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who created the I ♥ NY logo, the book moves year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, revealing the great sequence of life.
His first book, The Echoing Green, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review called it “a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn’s Boys of Summer some three decades ago.”
His second book, Half-Life, describes his recovery from a bus crash that broke his neck. Dr. Jerome Groopman, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, called it “an extraordinary memoir, told with nuance and brimming with wisdom.
Joshua was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University in 2012. He was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, grew up in New Jersey, and lives in New York. He is writing a book about Roe v. Wade.
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