David Laskin

I observed the start of the Jubilee in Rome by visiting and writing about the Eternal City's oldest churches. Read about my trip in the NY Times nytimes.com/2024/12/24/tra…

In case you feel in need of a sip of cool fresh mountain spring water -- or want to take a deep dive into one of Rome's fabled aqueducts: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/tra…

@octopus_grigori Love both of those. I once exchanged a few letters with her years ago. Not familiar with the Liszt bio. She had an amazing life!

My first trip to Rome since the pandemic was a kind of pilgrimage to sacred places. nytimes.com/2023/05/01/tra…

I just finished The Street by Ann Petry nytimes.com/2021/10/21/boo… and I am shaken to my bones. The story of a single mother in Harlem in the 1940s, it is one of the most powerful, distilled, and wrenching novels I have ever read. It's a good way to honor #BlackHistoryMonth

Seattle is back -- and I'm back in the @nytimes . This piece was super fun to research and write. nytimes.com/2022/09/01/tra…

@octopus_grigori I totally agree. I even sent him fan mail!

Thanks @ChristalACoope1 for running this very cool blog post about the origins and evolution of my novel "What Sammy Knew" -- I love how it came out! chrisricecooper.com/292-inside-the…

#292 Inside the Emotion of Fiction WHAT SAMMY KNEW by David Laskin chrisricecooper.com/292-inside-the…

I'm proud that my first novel "What Sammy Knew" will be issued in Penguin paperback next week. Tumultuous history -- both personal and national -- shaped the narrative, as I discuss in this blogpost about my research process. penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/2022/03/10/fac…

The Overstory by Richard Powers felled me with its power, beauty and scope. Powers just published a deeply moving new novel called Bewilderment. Here is my review in the @seattletimes seattletimes.com/entertainment/…

Very impressed with this highly learned analysis of Afghanistan's long fraught history with imperial powers written by @laskin (yes my daughter!). washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

My friend @LyndaVMapes has beautifully captured the historic return of the Nez Perce to their homeland near Joseph, OR. Thanks for the wonderful reporting! seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

Mary Ann Gwinn @gwinnma is a Seattle literary treasure and I'm thrilled and honored that she will be interviewing me (via Zoom) about my novel What Sammy Knew on May 27 at 7 PM PDT. Click here to register -- folioseattle.org/event-details/…

Wise words from an Israeli trauma surgeon on finding unity in crisis: "everything that is beautiful and possible" in a violence-torn Israel. nytimes.com/2021/05/18/opi…

So good to see local friends with new books in this time of renewal and reaquaintance: @davidlaskin’s “What Sammy Knew,” @mizkatelebo’s “Book of Difficult Fruit,” David Williams’ “Homewaters,” and @LyandaHaupt’s forthcoming “Rooted.” What a bountiful season!

I love this interview with @marionwinik in Long Island's great Newsday. Proud to be a Great Neck native! newsday.com/entertainment/… via @Newsday

I evidently broke new ground in What Sammy Knew. Thanks @EveRotman for the great story. jewishjournal.com/culture/335221…

Congrats to my pal @geologywriter on his forthcoming book Homewaters. David B. Williams does enjoy discovering stuff as you'll see in this excerpt from the book seattlemag.com/book-excerpt-h…

I'm really proud of this review of my novel What Sammy Knew in @NYJournalofBook. "Fresh and entertaining...holds our interest to the last page." Sweet! nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/wh…