Alumni in the News: July 5, 2022

Amir Arison ’00 was featured in the July 1 New York Times article, “A Chameleon Flies from ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner.’” Arison stars in the Broadway adaptation of the popular 2003 novel, which will begin previews on July 6.

Author Patrick Radden Keefe ’99 was the subject of the June 28 New York magazine feature, “Patrick Radden Keefe Is One of the Good Guys,” and was also featured in a June 23 New York Times Q&A, “Patrick Radden Keefe Has One Big Rule for His Reading Time.” Keefe’s latest book is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, a collection of his reported pieces from The New Yorker, where he’s been a contributor since 2006.

Elizabeth Dwoskin ’05, JRN’09 wrote the June 19 Washington Post article “Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down.” Dwoskin has been the Silicon Valley correspondent for the Post since 2016; before that, she was The Wall Street Journal’s first full-time beat reporter covering AI and the impact of algorithms on people’s lives.

The June 8 Atlantic article “How San Francisco Became a Failed City” was written by Nellie Bowles ’10. Bowles, a San Francisco native, is the author of a forthcoming book of essays and writes a column in the newsletter Common Sense.

Jean H. Lee ’92, JRN’95 wrote the June 7 New York Times guest essay “There’s a Reason Kim Jong-un Wants Us to Know About North Korea’s Covid Outbreak.” Lee is the former Korea Bureau chief for the Associated Press; she is now a co-host of the Lazarus Heist podcast from the BBC World Service and a senior fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

Singer/songwriter Maude Latour ’22 will perform at Lollapalooza 2022, which will take place in Chicago July 28–31. Latour discussed her time at the College in this interview with Impose Magazine.

Award-winning composer Tom Kitt ’96 created the original music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Almost Famous, which will start previews this fall. The musical is based on the on the 2000 film, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, that won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Kitt says of working with Crowe, “I think in that first meeting, we clicked and I was able to talk to him about how I saw the musical, how his work has affected me, and how I was going to be someone who was going to take care of what he had already created and find a way to adapt it.”