Tommy Orange - Open Books Open Minds (2020/2021) - There There by Tommy Orange - James P. Adams Library at James P. Adams Library

Interviews

"The State." The New Yorker, vol. 94, no. 6, 2018, pp.58-63.
An excerpt from There There, published in The New Yorker.
"Doors and Perception." Booklist, vol. 115, no. 5, 2018, p.37.
"Before I fell in love with reading, and then writing, among other things, I almost became a door-to-door vacuum salesman."
"How to Talk to Each Other When There's Little Common Ground." Time, 25 Oct 2018.
"I know, I’m a writer, so of course I think the answer is books, but I think reading books is a good place to start thinking about and understanding people’s stories you aren’t familiar with, outside your comfort zone and experience."
"Escape Velocity." Esquire, Nov 2019, pp.96-103.
"I believe adversity can breed brilliance beyond what those with safe and comfortable lives are capable of. I'm not convinced that Jeffrey—Sicangu and Oglala Lakota from South Dakota, born and raised in Oakland, California—would be the excellent human being he is did he not know what happened to the men in his family."
"The Team." The New York Times Magazine, 12 Jul 2020.
A short story from The New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project

Ghost Dance, by Tommy Orange. "A story about the first films ever recorded, what we choose to keep, and making sure we don't look away."