The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.