
Kirk Wallace Johnson
@kirkwjohnson
Author of The Fishermen and the Dragon + The Feather Thief (@VikingBooks); List Project founder. Adores @mjcantinjohnson, A + I
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So excited that 3 PRHA titles were on The New York Times "6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now," including: ⭐DEER CREEK DRIVE by Beverly Lowry ⭐THE WORLD'S WORST ASSISTANT by @sonamov ⭐THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON by Kirk Wallace Johnson, read by @quitehuynhsome Full list👇 nyti.ms/3BD6L4k


Thanks for such a great conversation, Pete Dominick

The The Wayback Machine contained *tons* of incriminating (and deleted) posts in the bird smuggling/feather trading underworld at the heart of THE FEATHER THIEF. Couldn't have written the book without those screengrabs...


Read an excerpt of Kirk Wallace Johnson's "richly reported and dramatically rendered investigative work" (FORTUNE) THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON in The Daily Beast now! bit.ly/3CqzpWU

When Vietnamese Fishermen Went to War With the Klan in Texas Amazing story. An excerpt from Kirk Wallace Johnson's new book "The Fishermen and the Dragon" via The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/when-vietnames…

Thanks, The Economist, for this great review of FISHERMEN: economist.com/culture/2022/0…


Thanks for the write-up of FISHERMEN, Texas Monthly

Read Science Magazine's review of THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON by Kirk Wallace Johnson now: bit.ly/3QA90sS


Latest from me: I review Kirk Wallace Johnson's new book on the attacks on Vietnamese refugees in Galveston Bay that were initiated by the Klan, all while the chemical companies were staging an all out assault on all of them. maiseh-review.ghost.io/the-fisherman-…

I moved to Houston and officially begin my 12 months of field research today, supported by a SSRC international dissertation grant. On the reading list: Kirk Wallace Johnson's new book about racial injustice Diane Wilson's fight against Formosa Plastics in Seadrift, Texas.



This quote was the moment I realized I had to write the book. That it was coming from a dude tying feathers to a hook made it that much better. Thanks to This American Life for such a wonderful telling of The Feather Thief.

By popular vote, our Gulf Coast Reads Book Pick for 2023 is The Fisherman and the Dragon by Kirk Wallace Johnson ⛵ Join HCPL, partner libraries and organizations, for special programs including a virtual author talk with Kirk Wallace Johnson! More info bit.ly/3CADXty


In my latest for The Spectator World I look at the British Museum scandal and the increasingly anti-social arrogance that leads to museum theft with author Kirk Wallace Johnson, whose superb "The Feather Thief" is being made into a TV series by Universal. thespectator.com/book-and-art/u…