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Sarah Stillman

Sarah Stillman
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Sarah Stillman

An inspiring example of what a self-confident teen can achieve, Sarah Stillman graduated from Yale with simultaneous Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Anthropology before pursuing her PhD at Oxford. Active in the international global justice movement, she has worked with migrant factory workers in southern China, refugees in rural Guatemala, and HIV/AIDS patients in Thailand. In 2008, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company in Iraq as a foreign correspondent for Truthdig, following which New York University named her the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award and her article about it was selected for publication in the New Yorker in... Read full bio

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Soul Searching will be released on January 03, 2012 in eBook
Jan 03, 2012
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Jan 03, 2012

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New Yorker, May 15, 2013
...unjust execution in Texas (?Trial by Fire?), but also about an assassination plot in Guatemala (?A Murder Foretold?). Sarah Stillman has written about the lives of foreign workers on U.S. military bases (?The Invisible Army?), and also about the dangers...
Futon Critic, January 2, 2013
...a screen adaptation of his first novel, Light House, and "The Throwaways", a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman. Production on his original thriller, Mojave, begins in the first quarter of next year with Atlas Independent's William Green...
Broadway World, January 2, 2013
...a screen adaptation of his first novel, Light House, and "The Throwaways", a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman. Production on his original thriller, Mojave, begins in the first quarter of next year with Atlas Independent's William Green...
The Atlantic Wire, December 21, 2012
...Anderson in  Outside   A devastating and personal takedown of a once lauded man.  "The Throwaways" by Sarah Stillman in The New Yorker Stillman's masterful exploration of young people, convicted of relatively minor offenses, then used as pawns...
MovieWeb, November 28, 2012
...adaptation of his first novel, Light House: A Trifle, and "The Throwaways", a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman. Lady Vengeance was released April 28th, 2006 and stars Yeong-ae Lee , Min-sik Choi , Tony Barry , Anne Cordiner , Su-hee Go ,...
Coming Soon!, November 28, 2012
...his first novel, "Light House: A Trifle," and "The Throwaways," a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman. (Photo Credit: Lia Toby/WENN.com...
Collider.com, November 28, 2012
...adaptation of his first novel, Light House: A Trifle, and “The Throwaways”, a New Yorker piece by journalist Sarah Stillman...
New Yorker, May 16, 2013
...factory (Walmart, Benetton, and Dress Barn, among others). Then a coalition of unions, N.G.O.s, and, Sarah Stillman writes, former factory workers proposed a binding accord on fire and building safety, and set yesterday as the deadline for businesses to...
New Yorker, May 15, 2013
...unjust execution in Texas (?Trial by Fire?), but also about an assassination plot in Guatemala (?A Murder Foretold?). Sarah Stillman has written about the lives of foreign workers on U.S. military bases (?The Invisible Army?), and also about the dangers...
Gaston Gazette, May 15, 2013
...mother and her 24-year-old garment worker son calling from a factory fire in Tazreen, Bangladesh, as chronicled by Sarah Stillman for The New Yorker: “Mom,” he’d said, “there is a fire in the factory. I’m trying my best to escape, but smoke...
Grist Magazine, May 10, 2013
...be different from plane crashes or many other catastrophic traumas in the slow-motion extravagance of their pain,” writes Sarah Stillman in The New Yorker. “For minutes, or even hours, workers’ lungs fill up with smoke. For days, even a week,...
Albany Herald, May 6, 2013
...mother and her 24-year-old garment worker son calling from a factory fire in Tazreen, Bangladesh, as chronicled by Sarah Stillman for The New Yorker: “Mom,” he’d said, “there is a fire in the factory. I’m trying my best to escape, but smoke...
New Yorker, May 3, 2013
...reportedly died. The lives lost and the families and friends left behind make this a devastating human story. Sarah Stillman has more on a woman who works with the survivors of Bangladeshi factory fires. But the involvement of American clothing companies...
Kazakhstan News, May 3, 2013
...reportedly died. The lives lost and the families and friends left behind make this a devastating human story. Sarah Stillman has more on...