Ted Conover's IMMERSION: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Mar 18, 2022 · 9m

Ted Conover's IMMERSION: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO GOING DEEP shares the how-to’s of his trade that he had to learn the hard way. How to get in, how to be ethical, and how to avoid being Googled are just a few of his topics he discusses. Ted has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, and butchered beef in a meat-packing plant in Nebraska. His day job is teaching at New York University. He is also the author of five other books and numerous articles published in The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Atlantic, among many others. Perhaps his best-known book is “Newjack…