077 - Robert Sullivan - Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

A conversation with historian Robert Sullivan about their book

Double Exposure:

Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

 

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)

 

Robert Sullivan is a writer and journalist who has written for The New Yorker, New York Times, Vogue, and A Public Space, among other outlets. He is a New York Times bestselling author multiple times over, with titles including: 

• The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City (Knopf Doubleday, 1999)
• A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could (Scribner, 2002)
• Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury, 2005)
• How Not to Get Rich: Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad (Bloomsbury, 2005)
• Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark (Bloomsbury, 2006)
• The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant (Harper Perennial, 2009)
• My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)

 

The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook, Bluesky, or X/Twitter, or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org.

 Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com