Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ new series on baseball, “The Tenth Inning,” features sportswriter Marcos Breton as a commentator for the PBS series. Marcos, along with photographer Jose Luis Villegas, researched Latin American players for their 1996 Alicia Patterson foundation project, “Lost Field of Dreams: The
Benoit Denizet-Lewis wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine on “Whatever Happened to Teen Romance?” He also discussed the story on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. He has just signed a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a book about addiction
John Margolies’ photographs were part of a State Department presentation in London, where he gave a talk at the Building Centre Trust. He also lectured at the Seattle Art Museum about his photographs from the American roadside.
Larry Tye’s book, based on his Patterson research, was published by Henry Holt. “Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class” also had book parties at several train stations, including those in Boston and Washington, which honored several of
Donatella Lorch left Newsweek to become director of the Knight International Press Fellowships in Washington. She can now be reached at lorch@icfj.org.
