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#2 : A Report on the Wildlife of Eastern Congo

October 10, 2011 Alex ShoumatoffDispatchesLeave a comment0

Rolling Stone Edit

This has been distilled and adapted from the original report for the United Nations Foundation, and has benefited from deft editing by Rolling Stone’s Bill Tonelli.

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          Kahuzi Biega was supposed to be the safest of the parks on my itinerary. The last one, Virungas, was totally overrun by “negative forces,” as the various …Read More

#1: On Loss – Part One: A Sylvia Plath Moment at the Charles Hotel

September 27, 2001 Alex ShoumatoffDispatchesLeave a comment0

On August 8 of this year, 2001, I drove from our place in the Adirondacks to Cambridge, Massachusetts to discuss a possible future Dispatch with a Shamar Rinpoche, a high lama of the kagiu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and an American practitioner whom I have known since childhood. The drive across New England took five …Read More

#1: On Loss – Part 2: Hellsapoppin

September 27, 2001 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alerts0

A month later, I went to New York City for a memorial service for my editor at Harper Collins, Robert Jones, an extraordinary person, an old soul if you believe in that sort of thing, highly evolved and deeply compassionate, who had truly devoted himself to his writers, to nurturing their talent and bringing out …Read More

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