Writing Politics Today - Mark Bowden & Natalie Y. Moore

With new information coming out every day about the plot to overturn the 2020 election, reporter Mark Bowden sits down with Chicago journalist Natalie Y. Moore to talk about his new book, co-written with Matthew Teague, "The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It." Bowden shares insights into what it's like reporting on politics today, what's at stake in the 2024 election, and where we go from here.
This conversation took place during the American Writers Festival on May 19, 2024 and was recorded live. To learn more about the American Writers Festival, click here: americanwriter...
About the panelists:
MARK BOWDEN is the author of fifteen books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller "Black Hawk Down," "Killing Pablo," "Hue 1968," and "The Last Stone." He reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for The Atlantic and other magazines.
NATALIE Y. MOORE is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Natalie's acclaimed book "The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation" received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is the author of the play "The Billboard," set in Chicago. She is also co-author of "The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang" and "Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation."