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I've written hundreds of stories for magazines and newspapers. Here are a few of the most notable ones.

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Broken: When Traffic Laws Fail Cyclists

Bicycling Magazine

January/February 2008

Winner of the 2009 National Magazine Award for Public Interest

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Postmodern Deliciousness: The World According to Clark Smith

Wine & Spirits Magazine

April 2007

Winner of the 2008 James Beard Award for Wine Writing

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The Agony and the Eggstasy

The New Yorker

November 24, 2015

When daylight grows short, chickens lay fewer eggs. In summer, when the living is easy, we can waltz into the farmers’ market hours after it opens and buy as many eggs as we want. But by mid-autumn an air of tension has begun to build...

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Wildfires, Pandemic, Earthquakes. What’s Next for California?

The New York Times

August 27, 2020

Fire season was bad enough. But pandemic fire season is disaster squared.

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Land's End

Readers Digest

October 2008

At the tip of a barrier island 80 miles above the Arctic Circle, the town of Kivalina, Alaska, is melting into the sea.

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Wine & Spirits Magazine

I'm a Special Correspondent for Wine & Spirits. Here's a link to a selection of stories I've written for the magazine.

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