Kerry Howley on the Seduction of a Singular “Truth” in the “Deep State” America of Violence, Paranoia, and Surveillance
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Bottoms Up and The Devil Laughs author Kerry Howley about her journey through the Deep State and what this suggests about the existence of “truth“ and “reality” in contemporary America.
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KERRY HOWLEY is a feature writer at New York magazine and the author of Thrown, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and many other venues. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Best American Sportswriting, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s. A Lannan Foundation Fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a professor at the celebrated Nonfiction Writing Program until joining New York. She lives in Los Angeles.
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