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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
As rivers crest and floodwaters recede following Hurricane Florence's deadly dance through the Carolinas, residents are beginning to take stock of what's left of their communities, their neighborhoods, their homes. They will hope that Florence...
read moreBook Review: American Wolf
When I’m in public with Galen, I often hear parents say one of two things to their children. The first: Look at that old dog. To which I think: Nope. Not old. Gray since birth. The second thing parents say is: Look at that dog. He looks like a...
read moreTake Two: Grab a tissue… or two, or three
A news story recently caught my attention. It was about a dog, in Brazil, who has been sitting outside a Sao Paolo hospital for some four months. You probably know where this story is going. The dog's owner--a homeless man--died at the hospital...
read moreDOGLAND turns 2! Win a signed copy.
In 2012, I decided I was going to write a book. The idea was a mix of hubris, crazy, and a whole lot of naiveté. I had never before written for any kind of print publication--my background was in TV news. Nor did I know anything about the...
read moreNew Releases
If you felt like your life was breaking apart, where would you go to try to put it back together? If you’re thirty-year-old Cooper Gosling, you’d go to the South Pole. For a year. Seriously. Gosling is the central character in Ashley Shelby’s...
read moreABOUT
Jacki Skole is an award-winning journalist, author and adjunct professor of communication. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she spent a decade as a writer and producer at CNN before turning to teaching. Jacki launched WRITE Now to assist students in writing the college application essays that will chart their future. Read More...
