New York! Come say hi today or tomorrow!
📍Wednesday at 7 PM - in conversation with Nicholas Lemann at @thejewishmuseum.bsky.social
📍Thursday at 6:30 PM - at @fountainbookshopnyc w/ @cristinajimenez.bsky.social , moderated by @documentedny.bsky.social
Info at danielagerson.com/events! ✨
Thrilled w/ The Wall Street Journal review of The Wanderers!
I love how it captures the book, and esp. this description of my wife, Talia Inlender, and me: "Their connection to each other—and to the plight of migrants today—is palpable throughout this powerful book.” cc @uclacilp.bsky.social
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.
No American is served by creating ever bigger media monopolies funded by ever more elusive foreign entities.
LA this event is going to be really special. Come join us!!
Thank you Damn History!!!
Hey, DC folks: Tomorrow! 5pm at Politics & Prose on Connecticut! I will be interviewing @danielagerson.bsky.social about her fascinating new book The Wanderers, tracing the path of two Jewish families who survived the Holocaust by getting shipped to Siberia politics-prose.com/daniela-gers...
I met @markzaidesq.bsky.social when I was a kid and he was still a student who brought my father into a law suit that changed all of our lives, and history. So grateful for his support at this moment, and his ongoing fight for justice.
This book is a fascinating quest into a part of Jewish WWII history I didn’t know existed: refugees from Poland who thought they got a raw deal being shipped to Siberia—before discovering what befell everyone else. All that and a modern love story. Come see @danielagerson.bsky.social & me on 3/31
Just over a week until my DC book launch for The Wanderers! I am beyond excited to kick off at Politics and Prose in conversation with @katzish.bsky.social, brilliant editor, writer and close friend. (Also, someone much more skilled than me at bluesky!) DC, come join us, it's going to be fun!!
Closing out 2025 with this incredible review from
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
"In crisp, unadorned prose, Gerson restores a neglected history...and tenderly chronicles the relationship that brought this history to light. It's a profoundly moving account."
publishersweekly.com
A dream come true to record the audio version of The Wanderers at Literati Audio in Hollywood. Thank you Dennis Kao, @hachetteaudio.bsky.social and team!! Can't wait to share The Wanderers with the world!
"These stories are more important than ever before and harder to tell than ever before."
@uclacilp.bsky.social's Hiroshi Motomuro asks @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social on reporting on immigration in an age of fear and extreme consequences. Watch the full discussion here: www.youtube.com/live/V8XWMFK...
The Wanderers is now available for pre-order! danielagerson.com/book/
I'm so thrilled to be able to share this book I have been working on for years!
They boldly took on student visa revocations, vendors and self-deportation, heightened anxiety on campus, weed and immigrants, food insecurity and more.
Take a moment to read, and support journalism today. We need it. And hire one of these gifted young reporters.
As National Guard troops take to LA streets and immigrant workers are terrorized, I'm sharing a few of my @gomatadors.bsky.social students' stories from our investigative reporting class this spring.
@gomatadors.bsky.social Student visa revocations hit CSUN. My investigative students take on the story - but they're not done reporting yet. cc: @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social sundial.csun.edu/193155/news/...
“CPJ has seen a spike in concern among journalists whose work entails travelling to the United States or crossing the border,” said Catalina Cortes, CPJ’s Interim Chief Emergencies Officer. “Our safety advisory helps journalists proactively manage these risks.”
More:
Mario Reyes was a great LA photographer and story at a great LA institution. Read the tribute to him @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social www.zocalopublicsquare.org/mexican-amer...
Re: Immigration
The Trump administration has (among other things):
- moved to end Haiti & Venezuela’s TPS designations
- shut down CBP One
- suspended Refugee Admissions Program
We've made a tracker to help see when these changes reduce labor supply: www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
DOGE employees become the deep state
Good on Politico Playbook for straight-up calling it what it is:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
++ rec this article by @andrewsilverstein.bsky.social for the @forward.bsky.social on the 1952 immigration law cited in the arrest. Its backers tried to bar survivors who evaded the Nazis in the USSR like my family. I did not imagine it would come up in the unjust arrest of a Green Card holder.
The best. I miss BAM.
On the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I invite you to pause and read, on a related topic, Paul Lerner's probing essay for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...
Our statement on President Trump’s planned executive actions and policies announced today:
Realizing the words were actually Drill Baby Drill. But in my mind I heard them so loudly as Burn Baby Burn. Everyone needs an editor, never so important as now.
