Kathryn Schulz on Death and Love, Memoirs and Essays, and
Kathryn Schulz joined\xa0The New Yorker\xa0as a staff writer in 2015. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and a National Magazine Award for \u201cThe Really Big One,\u201d her story on seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Previously, she was the book critic for\xa0New York, the editor of the environmental magazine\xa0Grist, and a reporter and editor at the\xa0Santiago Times. She is the author of\xa0Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.\xa0
We talk about\xa0Lost and Found, her just published memoir, about making the planet less lonely, dark places, a sense of the beautiful, math formulas, love, death, loss, discovery, commonplace experiences, the history of words, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, being proud of others, privacy, foggy grief, technicolour worlds, noticing details, surprises, essays and memoirs, bearing witness, and and.\xa0