Writer Patrick Symmes is a keen cyclist. So when his bike was stolen from one of New York’s most expensive blocks he set out on a mission to find the culprit. As Patrick tells host Marnie Chesterton, he caught one of the bike thieves red-handed, but was disappointed to find the man was no criminal mastermind. [Continue Reading]
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Fresh Air: South Sudan
In April I appeared as a guest of Neal Conan’s on the NPR program Fresh Air to discuss the experience of researching the article “A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan,” which appears in the April ’13 issue of Outside Magazine. via NPR: South Sudan: A Warn-Torn Nation Transforms To Tourist Destination
Writers Voice: Cuba Present And Past
Journalist Patrick Symmes talks about living on $15 dollars a month in Cuba. His article in the October Harper’s is “Thirty Days as a Cuban: Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana.” And we air a 2008 interview with T.J. English about HAVANA NOCTURNE. It’s about how the Mob took over Havana and lost it [Continue Reading]
Dispatches – cbc radio: The Cuban State Diet
Patrick Symmes recently lost a little weight, but gained a lot of insight into how Cuba works. He went there to live for a month on the same rations most Cubans have to live on: about $15 American worth of food. Put another way: most of us would be licking the crumbs from the cookie [Continue Reading]
