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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: Pulitzer Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

Daily News, News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike’s December 5, 2023 interview with author, journalist, and former director of the International Crisis Group’s Arab-Israeli Project, Nathan Thrall. Nathan won the Pulitzer Prize this past week for his most recent book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, it's Mike. It's Saturday and tautologically speaking. This is the Saturday show.

1:09.1

Normally on the Saturday show, we bring you one from the vaults and one from the week,

1:12.3

but I'm going to

1:12.7

change things up just a little bit I'm going to bring you one for the not so

1:16.6

distant past is it faulty is it more weaky I don't know it's not weak it's not

1:21.5

weak it's a strong interview with Nathan Thral who just won the Pulitzer

1:25.8

Prize in non-fiction for the book we're going to talk about a day in the life of

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Abbed Salama it was really a great book and I think a deserving winner.

1:35.0

And for all and I then used the talk to talk about his opinion of the

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