A Conversation with Jonathan Blitzer

Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting, as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award and the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation. His writing and reporting have also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Atavist, Oxford American, ak The Nation. He was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. He lives with his family in New York City. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is his first book.

Sou Everyone Who is Gone is Here

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is an odyssey of struggle and resilience. With astonishing nuance and detail, Blitzer tells an epic story about the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, and in doing so, he delves into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation’s turbulent politics and culture in countless ways—and will almost certainly determine its future.