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"A vital, immersive and elegant debut. With glittering prose and a novelist’s knack for storytelling, Clark carries readers to the heart of this community as they try to manage and adapt to the tidal wave of change."― The New York Times Book Review "An immersive and absorbing chronicle that takes the reader deep into the lives of this tribe and... renders their lives, and the choices they face, not just comprehensible but somehow familiar..."―San Francisco Chronicle "A forceful debut... [Clark's] finely wrought, deeply reported, and highly empathetic account is a human-level testament to dignity in the face of loss."―Outside Magazine “I absolutely loved this magnificent book." —Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm |
Doug Bock Clark is an investigative reporter at ProPublica. He's also a former GQ Correspondent, a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and a contributor for the website of The New Yorker. His journalism has received many national honors, including winning the Arthur L. Carter Reporting Award and being a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting, the Mirror Award, and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists (twice). His first book, The Last Whalers, was one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2019 and awarded the Lowell Thomas Travel Book Silver Award, among other honors. He also produced the feature documentaries Assassins, which played in theaters worldwide, and The Last Cruise, for HBO, which were inspired by his articles.
His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, WIRED, ELLE, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, The New Republic, The Atavist, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, and the website of The New Yorker. His many journalism honors include the Reporting Award from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and being a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting, the Mirror Award, and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists (twice). He has also been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships, two grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship, and a Glimpse Fellowship, a travel writing grant partly sponsored by National Geographic. Six of his articles have been nominated by their publications for the National Magazine Award in the feature writing and reporting categories. His writing has been anthologized by Best American Travel Writing and Oxford University Press, and it has also been translated into over a dozen languages. His work has also been placed on best-of-the-year lists by Longform, Longreads, and The Sunday Long Reads, and all three have also chosen his work as the number one pick of the week, besides highlighting it numerous other times. He has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC's 20/20, and many other outlets.
His first book, The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life, chronicles life in an indigenous tribe that hunts sperm whales with bamboo harpoons. It was one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2019, won the 2019 Lowell Thomas Travel Book Silver Award, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Mountbatten Best Book Award. The New York Times twice selected it as an Editor's Choice and praised it as "an immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book." The Telegraph also selected it as one of the best travel books of 2019. It is available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and wherever books are sold. Editions have been published or are forthcoming in England, Japan, Korea, France, Spain, China, and Commonweath nations.
He was an executive producer for the feature documentary Assassins, which was inspired by his reporting for GQ on the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the dictator of North Korea. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 and came out in cinemas nationwide in December 2020. Reviewers have called it: "a shocking, fascinating true story" (The Associated Press), "a wild story" (The New York Times), “exhilarating, fascinating, and ultimately tragic,” (Collider), “piercingly observant” (The Hollywood Observer), a "thriller, courtroom drama, and geopolitical primer" (The Boston Globe), "provocative as an examination of power" (The Los Angeles Times), and "the craziest murder of the 21st century" (IndieWire). Variety promised, “as you watch the movie… there are moments your jaw will drop.” It made two best-of-the-year lists. It will play in theaters in America, Germany, Israel, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Thailand, Scandinavia, South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other nations. The movie was directed by Academy Award-finalist Ryan White (The Case Against 8), produced by Jessica Hargrave and Tripod Media (The Keepers), and executive produced by Clark. More information, including a trailer and ways to watch in-person and online, can be found on the movie's stand-alone website.
He was investigative producer for the HBO documentary The Last Cruise, which was inspired by his reporting for GQ on the nightmare voyage of a cruise ship struck by a Covid outbreak. The Guardian called it: "Dread-filled, unsettling... The Last Cruise evokes the fear and anxiety of coexisting with a then novel, amorphous, poorly understood threat... an 'origin story' [of the pandemic]"; RogerEbert.com said, "With visual precision and remarkable intimacy, [the documentary] recalls... the outset of the pandemic." The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Fascinating... Takes us inside the experience of being stuck inside a floating prison, unwanted by any port..."; The Chicago Sun Times: "Compelling"; USA Today: "Jolting"; The Los Angeles Times: "Harrowing."
He has reported from more than a dozen countries, and he often shoots the photos for his stories, with his pictures having appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, The New Republic, Men's Journal, Mother Jones, ELLE, BuzzFeed, The South China Morning Post, Der Spiegel, Courier Japan, and other publications. He is the first person to have kayaked the middle section of Myanmar's Irrawaddy River. He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
PERSONAL NOTE: I recently wrote an article about John Chau, an American missionary who tried to convert the world's most isolated tribe. I am still enthralled by this story. If you knew John and would like to share any thoughts, please reach out to me using the contact form.
His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, WIRED, ELLE, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, The New Republic, The Atavist, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, and the website of The New Yorker. His many journalism honors include the Reporting Award from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and being a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting, the Mirror Award, and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists (twice). He has also been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships, two grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship, and a Glimpse Fellowship, a travel writing grant partly sponsored by National Geographic. Six of his articles have been nominated by their publications for the National Magazine Award in the feature writing and reporting categories. His writing has been anthologized by Best American Travel Writing and Oxford University Press, and it has also been translated into over a dozen languages. His work has also been placed on best-of-the-year lists by Longform, Longreads, and The Sunday Long Reads, and all three have also chosen his work as the number one pick of the week, besides highlighting it numerous other times. He has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC's 20/20, and many other outlets.
His first book, The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life, chronicles life in an indigenous tribe that hunts sperm whales with bamboo harpoons. It was one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2019, won the 2019 Lowell Thomas Travel Book Silver Award, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Mountbatten Best Book Award. The New York Times twice selected it as an Editor's Choice and praised it as "an immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book." The Telegraph also selected it as one of the best travel books of 2019. It is available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and wherever books are sold. Editions have been published or are forthcoming in England, Japan, Korea, France, Spain, China, and Commonweath nations.
He was an executive producer for the feature documentary Assassins, which was inspired by his reporting for GQ on the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the dictator of North Korea. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 and came out in cinemas nationwide in December 2020. Reviewers have called it: "a shocking, fascinating true story" (The Associated Press), "a wild story" (The New York Times), “exhilarating, fascinating, and ultimately tragic,” (Collider), “piercingly observant” (The Hollywood Observer), a "thriller, courtroom drama, and geopolitical primer" (The Boston Globe), "provocative as an examination of power" (The Los Angeles Times), and "the craziest murder of the 21st century" (IndieWire). Variety promised, “as you watch the movie… there are moments your jaw will drop.” It made two best-of-the-year lists. It will play in theaters in America, Germany, Israel, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Thailand, Scandinavia, South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other nations. The movie was directed by Academy Award-finalist Ryan White (The Case Against 8), produced by Jessica Hargrave and Tripod Media (The Keepers), and executive produced by Clark. More information, including a trailer and ways to watch in-person and online, can be found on the movie's stand-alone website.
He was investigative producer for the HBO documentary The Last Cruise, which was inspired by his reporting for GQ on the nightmare voyage of a cruise ship struck by a Covid outbreak. The Guardian called it: "Dread-filled, unsettling... The Last Cruise evokes the fear and anxiety of coexisting with a then novel, amorphous, poorly understood threat... an 'origin story' [of the pandemic]"; RogerEbert.com said, "With visual precision and remarkable intimacy, [the documentary] recalls... the outset of the pandemic." The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Fascinating... Takes us inside the experience of being stuck inside a floating prison, unwanted by any port..."; The Chicago Sun Times: "Compelling"; USA Today: "Jolting"; The Los Angeles Times: "Harrowing."
He has reported from more than a dozen countries, and he often shoots the photos for his stories, with his pictures having appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, The New Republic, Men's Journal, Mother Jones, ELLE, BuzzFeed, The South China Morning Post, Der Spiegel, Courier Japan, and other publications. He is the first person to have kayaked the middle section of Myanmar's Irrawaddy River. He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
PERSONAL NOTE: I recently wrote an article about John Chau, an American missionary who tried to convert the world's most isolated tribe. I am still enthralled by this story. If you knew John and would like to share any thoughts, please reach out to me using the contact form.