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  • December 2009: The Dispatches has started a new section, Fiction.
  • July 2009: Dispatch #54: In Search of the Source of AIDS in Africa.  With swine flu spreading around the world, and mankind bracing for the second wave in the fall, here is a 1988 Vanity Fair piece about another virus and its devastating effects and the race to understand and contain it.  Click here to read the Dispatch (Adobe PDF)
  • June 1, 2009 : "The Scramble for the Arctic" has been reprinted as a chapter in Adaptation and Climate Change, ed. Sarah Flint Erdreich, Greenhaven Press.
  • The Dispatches has started a new section, Nature Art.
    • The May issue of Vanity Fair, now on the stands, and VanityFair.com have an article by Shoumatoff/Suitcase called "Bohemian Tragedy,"which recounts how he was arrested in the Bohemian Grove while trying to help an old college buddy stop the cutting of its magnificent redwoods.
    • Suitcase on the Loose, Alex Shoumatoff's long-await debut album, has been posted on the site in its entirety on Dispatches.  Click here to listen to it. It is also available for puchase/download at Itunes Amazon, emusic, and other digital jukeboxes.  You can also hear two of its ten songs, "Too Too Much," a green song, and "Pennsylvania Turnpike Blues" with a slideshow of Shoumatoff's old postcards, on VanityFair.com.  The latter was aired on National Public Radio's weekend edition the Sunday morning before the Pennsylvania primary for the 2008 Presidential Election.
    • 'How can I become part of this effort?'  Click here to see the June, 2007 report and here to read a lecture Alex recently gave at the McGill school of business.
    • March, 2008: The Dispatches are now host to some astounding performances of traditional gypsy music from Rajasthan. Take a listen to them here.
    • February, 2008: We've just heard from Marylise Lefèvre, one of our far flung interns, who is volunteering at a chimp sanctuary in Cameroun. In the summer she will resume her study of the movements of returning salmon in eastern Quebec. Here is a photo of her with three chimps, orphaned by poachers, that she is taking care of.
    • February, 2008: Bob Dylan airs an old blues song about the death of FDR and Shoumatoff's grandmother, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, and talks about her afterwards on his radio show. Click here to listen to the broadcast and here to read about Alex's grandmother.
    • Fantastic news! The Shoumatoff's hairstreak lives! The following e-mail was received in February 2008.  Click here
    • January, 2008: Dispatch #38 was re-printed by Vanity Fair in a booklet called "A Guide to Green Living" and in an anthology for English 101, the college composition course, called The Reader, edited by Judy Sieg
    • January, 2008: Dispatch #41 has been submitted by Walrus Magazine for two Canadian National Magazine Awards.


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