Amanda M. Fairbanks, THE LOST BOYS OF MONTAUK

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"There's a lot of darkness, but there has to be some sort of sliver of light that we keep going. I do think these stories help us feel less alone. I do." Amanda Fairbanks explains how her career as a journalist shaped her approach to both researching and writing her first book The Lost Boys of Montauk. She also shares what the experience taught her about grief, trauma, and personal histories.

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0:39.7	Amanda Fairbanks is the author of The Lost Boys of Montauk, a true story of the windblown, four men who vanished at sea,
0:44.7	and the survivors they left behind. Amanda and I actually did this podcast in person, one of my
0:49.9	first in-person podcasts since the pandemic. So we were very giddy to be talking to a real-life
0:55.7	human being for this podcast. Amanda is a journalist and author who has worked in the editorial
1:00.5	department of the New York Times as a higher education reporter at Huff Post and as a staff
1:05.9	writer at the East Hampton Star. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe,
1:10.5	Newsweek,
1:11.0	The Atlantic, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. A graduate of Smith
1:15.4	College and a former Teach for America core member, she has two master's degrees from Columbia
1:20.3	University's Graduate School of Journalism. In May of 2021, Gallery is publishing this book.
1:26.0	In fact, it came out two days ago. The California native lives in Sag Harbor, New York, with her husband and two children.
1:32.6	Welcome, Amanda. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books.
1:37.1	In person for the first time in a year and six months to talk about the last boys of Montec.
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