Craig Fehrman

Writer for NYT, WSJ, others. "This Vast Enterprise," my book on the Lewis and Clark expedition, is out now from @avidreaderpress.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

Woke up this morning to an incredible review of my book by @andrea_wulf in the NYT. Surreal. "Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition?" she writes. "After reading 'This Vast Enterprise,' by Craig Fehrman, my answer is an emphatic yes."

[Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis]

Another piece from the Curtis Magazine Conservancy:

A 1969 review of Slaughterhouse-Five by “J. Michael Crichton.” He published The Andromeda Strain two weeks later.
https://t.co/McP7AF2PqK

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@anecdotal @TheTLS Oh also the fact that Lewis at the end kept talking out loud to Clark, even as Clark was hundreds of miles away. (Clark learned that detail from John Pernier, who was with Lewis.) That is also just so, so sad.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

I always love it when @TheTLS asks its authors about their summer reading. This year Paul Muldoon (!!!) put my book on his list.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@anecdotal @TheTLS Thank you and thanks for reading! And yes the epilogue is unfortunately a real downer -- I hadn't known what happened to Ordway, and he and York are the ones that get me the most.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@robdorso @TheTLS Thank you so much! It was such a fun topic to think about.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

If you want to see the other recs: https://t.co/o0pA3eZaz7

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

This morning I'm at the public library with my two youngest children. I can work on my laptop while they enjoy hours of undistracted reading time surrounded by books. And it's all free!

Parents, it's on us to reverse this. Set aside dedicated reading time each day.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

[Richard Lawson @rilaws]

Odyssey is terrific. Comfortably seats eight and features the thoughtful engineering touches we’ve come to expect from Honda

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

I saw the @odysseymovie yesterday. Stay tuned for my review in @nybooks .

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@RodeoProfessor @mtd10mm It's all good -- I completely understand your initial reaction, especially based on the op ed (and the headline, which FWIW I did not write). I hope you enjoy the book. One thing I loved about writing it was a chance to park my brain in 1804, away from today's headlines!

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@RodeoProfessor @mtd10mm Anyway, thank you both for the discussion. I learned a lot!

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@RodeoProfessor @mtd10mm I live in Indiana so I don't know forestry like you all do. In the op ed, I wanted to make a bipartisan case for longterm hard science funding. (I'm thinking of my senator, Todd Young.) But I'm sure there are bad science grants, just like there are bad Sacajawea essays.

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

@RodeoProfessor @mtd10mm Thanks, Michael -- there's new stuff about Colter's bond w/ his sergeant! And @RodeoProfessor, I actually agree w/ you. But op eds and books are different. I tried hard to write a book about 1804, not 2026, and FWIW it got rave reviews from conservatives in @NRO + @FreeBeacon.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

online seems divided between people who haven’t seen Nolan’s Odyssey and hate it, and people who actually saw Nolan’s Odyssey and liked it, it’s a rich debate

[Michael Luo @michaelluo]

!!! https://t.co/7trxGHJOML

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Merriweather Lewis "is the patron saint of writer’s block: he got the big grant, did all the research, took copious notes, and then, when it came time to actually write the book, drank too much, took opiates, and shot himself." A great Fourth of July read: https://t.co/1npxKgB1h1

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

This and so much more is available in the definitive edition of the expedition journals, online and free for all and funded by @NEHgov: https://t.co/8NlmuSSFbK

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

Happy July 4 -- or as John Ordway called it, "the 4th of Independence"! On this day in 1805, Ordway, a sergeant under Lewis and Clark, wrote that "the fiddle put in order and the party amused themselves dancing all the evening until about 10 o'clock in a civil and jovial manner."

[Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman]

"Late in the evening," he wrote, "we had a light shower of rain." But, the sergeant added, "[it] did not last long."