Nick Reding (journalist)
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Nick Reding is an American journalist
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He graduated from Northwestern University
with a bachelor's degree in creative writing and English literature, and from New York University
with a MFA in Creative Writing, where he was a University Fellow.
He lives with his wife and son in Saint Louis.
His work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Food and Wine, Outside, Fast Company, and Details.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
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He graduated from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
with a bachelor's degree in creative writing and English literature, and from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
with a MFA in Creative Writing, where he was a University Fellow.
He lives with his wife and son in Saint Louis.
His work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Food and Wine, Outside, Fast Company, and Details.
Works
- The Last Cowboys at the End of the World Crown Publishers, 2001, ISBN 9780609605967
- Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small TownMethland: The Death and Life of an American Small TownMethland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade...
Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 9781596916500
Reviews
Journalist Nick Reding stumbled into Gooding, Idaho, in 1999, to report a magazine story about ranching in the sparsely populated flatlands northwest of where Idaho, Nevada and Utah come together. It was there that Reding first encountered crystal methamphetamine, and he didn't just see it in one place. It was everywhere -- on the ranches, in the bars that overmatched police dared not enter and in the ranch bunkhouses where dealers dropped by like door-to-door salesmen.
Small-town residents, the story goes, are honest, hard-working, religiously observant and somehow just more American than the rest of America. In his persuasive new book, "Methland," journalist Nick Reding reveals the fallacies of this myth by showing how, over the past three decades, small-town America has been blighted by methamphetamine, which has taken root in -- and taken hold of -- its soul.
External links
- "An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland", Huffington Post, July 20, 2009