Bonus Episode! Addendum to Episode 32, Using Jean Guerrero's Crux and Simon and Garfunkel's "I am a Rock"

This is a first-in rereading Jean Guerrero's incredible memoir, Crux, I found common themes and extended metaphor with Simon and Garfunkel's "I am a Rock," covered in Episode 32, and so I did a bonus episode!

I look forward to doing a more in-depth discussion of Crux on a later episode.

 

 

Jean Guerrero is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda. Her first book, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, won a PEN Literary Award. Her writing is featured in Vanity Fair, Politico, The Nation, Wired, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and more. She is an Emmy-winning border reporter, contributing to NPR, the PBS NewsHour and more. Months before Trump’s family separations captured national attention, her reporting on the practice was cited by members of Congress. She started her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America, trekking through mountains with coffee smugglers, opium poppy producers and more. She was 2019 “Journalist of the Year” (Society for Professional Journalists, San Diego) and one of the California Chicano News Media Association’s most influential Latina journalists in the region.