Jessica Bruder is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on subcultures and the dark corners of the economy. She has written for Harper's Magazine, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Bruder teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism.
"Stirring reportage." -- O Magazine
"A remarkable book of immersive reporting... Bruder is an acute and
compassionate observer." -- Margaret Talbot - The New Yorker
" Bruder is a poised and graceful writer." -- Parul Sehgal - The
New York Times
"[A] devastating, revelatory book." -- Timothy R. Smith - The
Washington Post
"Stunning and beautifully written... brilliant and haunting..." --
Arlie Russell Hochschild - The New York Times Book Review
"A first-rate piece of immersive journalism." -- San Francisco
Chronicle
"At once wonderfully humane and deeply troubling, the book offers
an eye-opening tour of the increasingly unequal, unstable, and
insecure future our country is racing toward." -- Astra Taylor -
The Nation
"This [Nomadland] is not some lookie-loo movie,
condescendingly imagining the poor: Zhao and McDormand did the
legwork-as did journalist Jessica Bruder, whose book inspired the
film-entering communities and engaging with them in order to better
tell their stories." -- Vanity Fair
"I thought the book ["Nomadland: Surviving America in the
Twenty-First Century," by Jessica Bruder] was a very important
document." -- David Strathairn - Los Angeles Times
"Bruder's lively, thoroughly reported book of the same name..." --
AO Scott - The New York Times
"Ms. Zhao based her screenplay on Jessica Bruder's 2018 book of the
same name, an exceptional piece of nonfiction that emphasized
social and economic upheaval in the wake of the Great Recession...
Ms. Bruder's book staked out the territory and brought its shifting
population to life with calm, empathetic reporting." -- The Wall
Street Journal
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