Sarah Maslin Nir, HORSE CRAZY: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

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🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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With the Hampton Classic horse show around the corner, New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir's debut memoir, Horse Crazy, is more timely than ever. As she traveled the world for work, Sarah secretly documented the history of horses in each region, satisfying a lifelong obsession while also developing her own personal narrative. From growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor to working for the founder of The Black Cowboy Museum and meeting a woman whose own horse obsession led her to nefarious deeds, Sarah's story is as complex and riveting as the animals she loves.

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0:39.8	Sarah Maslin-Nir is the author of Horse Crazy, the story of a woman and a world in love with an animal. Sarah is a staff
0:44.8	reporter for the New York Times and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Unvarnished,
0:50.2	her more than year-long investigation into New York City's nail salon industry that documented the exploitative labor practices and health issues manicurist's face.
0:58.7	I totally remember reading that article.
1:00.5	Before becoming a staff writer, near freelance for 11 sections of the paper, traveling to the Alaskan wilderness in search of people who prefer to live in isolation and to post-earthquake Haiti.
1:10.4	She began as the New York
1:11.5	Times nightlife columnist covering 252 parties in 18 months and continued on to a career that has
1:17.2	taken her from covering kidnappings by terrorists in West Africa to wildfires in California and
1:23.4	everything in between. A born and raised Manhattanite, Sarah Nier earned a master's at the
1:27.9	Columbia School of Journalism and graduated from Columbia University where she studied politics and
1:32.6	philosophy. She loves horses, which you will find out when you read this book. Welcome, Sarah.
1:38.2	Thanks so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss horse crazy. Thank you for
1:43.1	having me. Your first in-person.
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