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Thank you for visiting this website, and special thanks if you are not my mother or one of my friends. My confidants convinced me that these days, authors need to jump on this miraculous electronic bandwagon: www.everywriterneedsawebsite.com
After nearly 15 years of magazine journalism, mostly spent working for Newsweek, I twice forayed into authordom with the publication of a non-fiction whodunit, Powder Burn, as well as a memoir and travelogue entitled Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth. With the publication of my second book, I inaugurated this shameless act of self-promotion, danielglick.net. Welcome.
I hope for this to be, to utilize a wildly overused and misunderstood phrase, an interactive website. What I take that to mean is that I plan to update it regularly, to respond to those of you who contact me, to add photos and interesting links in addition to information about upcoming speaking engagements and the like. The truth is, in my years of writing for Newsweek and other national publications, I have received very little feedback from my articles. I would love to hear from readers of either of my books and, time permitting, to engage in spirited discussion as the subject warrants.
I'd also like to utilize this space to keep people up to date about my magazine writing: in addition to what I listed above, the March/April issue of Audubon magazine included a story I wrote about the reintroduction of Mexican wolves on the White Mountain Apache Tribe reservation in Arizona. (Link below) The January, 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine featured my story on the Colorado lynx reintroduction. See below for a link. The September, 2005 issue of Smithsonian Magazine features a cover story I wrote on endangered species recovery case studies. The Autumn 2005 cover story in Nature Conservancy Magazine, "Facing a Warmer Future," is about climate change and traditional Eskimo subsistence cultures. The May Issue of Audubon magazine features an article about Michael Crichton and his new retrograde novel that claims global warming is a hoax. The link is just below. Lastly, the September, 2004 issue of National Geographic Magazine features a three-part cover story on global climate change, the first of which was authored by yours truly. The article was awarded an Overseas Press Club award. You can check out my "Field Notes" by clicking below.
People have asked me to update a little about the kids' lives since we've been back. Kolya spent the first half of his junior year in high school back in Australia, near Melbourne, with a truly wonderful family and the AFS exchange program. Most recently, he returned from Algeria by himself and began life as a freshman at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Zoe began her high school career at the El Hourouf International School of Algiers, and then started at the much more prosaic Boulder High School in January, 2007.
I want to thank those of you who have already written and shared a little of your own stories. Somehow, it is reassuring for all of us to know we are not alone.
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A guide to this site:
Please click on "Powder Burn" to learn about my first book, Powder Burn: Arson, Money and Mystery on Vail Mountain, an account of the $12 million arson at the country's largest ski resort which was dubiously claimed by an "ecoterrorism" group called the Earth Liberation Front. In early December, 2005, federal prosecutors arrested several alleged ecoterrorists and claimed to have evidence linking them to the Vail fires. The statute of limitations for arson is ten years.
The "Monkey Dance" page includes photos, excerpts, and background information on the new book, which chronicles a five-month, around-the-world journey I took with my two children after their mother moved away and my older brother died of breast cancer.
The "Biography" page contains links to several articles I have written recently: a piece I wrote for Harper's magazine on the political implications of the reliance on National Guard and Reserve soldiers in Iraq; a USA Today oped piece on gay marriage, a piece on Salon.com about the first U.S. soldier since the Vietnam War to be charged with cowardice, and several others. The page has a link to my "Fresh Air" interview and a photo of Zoe and me on our adventure camel-back in the Negev Desert. I also include links to the Outside magazine piece that ultimately became the book proposal for Monkey Dancing.
On the "Monkey Dance" page, there's an author Q&A about Monkey Dancing, conducted dubiously by myself. I've also posted excerpts of some Monkey Dancing reviews.
Lastly, the "Monkey Tour" section offers information about where I'll be giving book talks, public lectures, and teaching classes -- as well as ways to contact me to arrange similar events.
Once again, I thank you for visiting and welcome your comments, rants and suggestions. Just click on the appropriate link at the top of the page and set off on your own monkey tour.
