Oct 6, 2019
Adam
Popescu is the guest. His debut novel, Nima,
is available from Unnamed Press.
Popescu is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Marketplace, Playboy, Fast Company, Scientific American, Outside, The Guardian, New Scientist, Los Angeles Magazine, and others.
Popescu is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Marketplace, Playboy, Fast Company, Scientific American, Outside, The Guardian, New Scientist, Los Angeles Magazine, and others.
His journalism has focused on a wide range, from business, the
internet and the arts, to vanishing cultures and wildlife,
reporting from places threatened by climate change, globalism, and
the march of technology. In 2013, he climbed 18,000 feet up Mount
Everest, covering the impact of tourism on the land and local
Nepali people for the
BBC. That experience would inspire his debut novel, NIMA,
published in late May, 2019, from Unnamed Press.
He's tracked
mountain lions in urban LA,
polar bears in Northern
Canada, covered
Arctic tsunamis, glacial melt and erosion
in
Greenland and
Alaska, and spent time in drought-plagued
East Africa and
Indonesia, places and people at the vanguard of this world
shift. Heads of state in
Mexico, politicos tasked with governing alongside narcos,
Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai
Lama, founders of
Instagram,
Twitter,
Tinder,
real cyborgs,
convicts, dissidents,
billionaires, all have been interview subjects. He recently
profiled
Steven Spielberg for the New York Times.
In 2018, Popescu
spent weeks in Ladakh,
in search of snow leopards in India's Himalayas, sailed to the
edge of the globe in the Russian High Arctic and into the
deceptively placid Pacific waters of the Galapagos, on
assignment for Bloomberg, the Washington Post and New
York Times. A year later, he returned to Ladakh and saw a
leopard with the naked eye.
Popescu holds a master’s degree in journalism from the S.I.
Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University,
and a BA in creative writing from Pitzer College. He lives in Los
Angeles.
In today's monologue, I talk about my day job and share a
special offer.