Marc Herman is the author of The Shores of Tripoli, which is about the Libyan civil war, and Searching for El Dorado, which is about a gold rush in the Amazon. He’s a contributing editor at Pacific Standard. He’s much cheerier in person than the above might suggest.

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  March/April 2013: Letter to the Editors
  Ten years on, a reexamination of a piece from issue one
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  March 2003: The Most Pre-Protested Would-Be War in History?
  Walking with the marchers in San Francisco, untangling the many voices, including that of the “mom” from “Dharma and Greg”.