November 28, 2011 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Tony D'Souza on All Things Considered

Nov 28 2011

NPR’s All Things Considered runs a popular program called “Three Books” where authors are asked to describe three worthy books on a single subject that may have been overlooked. This past Friday, Tony D’Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03) contributed, “Three Criminally Good Reads.” The segment is four minutes long, and you can hear him discuss crime novels by John Dos Passos, Magnus Mills, and Christopher Isherwood. D’Souza is the author of his own crime novel, Mule that recently was sold to the movies. Listen Now: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/140804657/black-market-value-three-criminally-good-reads

Peter Hessler Checks In From Cairo

Nov 28 2011

[In our small attempt to keep everyone abreast of what is happening in cities around the world, via our farflung RPCVs, Peter Hessler (China 1996-98), one of the recent 22 recipients of the $500,000 ‘genius awards’ given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and who is now living in Cairo, Egypt with his wife and their twin babies, emailed me this morning:] The fighting has been very, very localized, and now has been stopped for a few days. Even on the square it’s been basically safe; you just didn’t want to go down the side streets where they were battling the police at the Ministry of Interior. In my neighborhood, less than a mile and a half away, there was really no sign of it. People were very friendly to me on the square — there have been some reports of foreigners getting harassed and attacked, but that wasn’t my experience. But a . . .

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