Journalist Conover takes risks, trains
“Participatory journalist” Ted Conover has had nine lives.
In a packed Branford College common room last night as a part of the Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors series, the Pulitzer Prize finalist shared pieces of these lives, which include riding trains across the country with “hobos,” crossing the Mexican border with illegal migrant workers, trucking across Africa and working as a correctional officer in the Sing Sing prison.
To a rapt audience, Conover read passages describing them all. He was characteristically modest, asserting that he does not seek to...
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