"Historians and nonfiction authors often glide over lived experience. They prefer actions, citations, details, dates. But I had just gone through something primal—something beyond my control and beyond the boundaries of modern life."

"Limited information and a lack of informed health care providers make this life transition even more difficult for incarcerated people."

"The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world."

"The gold that once drew opportunists to this slice of California now attracts a new generation."