Christina Thompson

Editor @harvard_review | Author SEA PEOPLE and COME ON SHORE | NLA, NEH, NEA Fellow | Writing about the history of the Pacific

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

Started a new book. Here’s a sample of some of the source material: 😳

[Mike Pitts @pittsmike]

Here's a nice surprise, much better late than never a lovely @TheTLS review of Island at the Edge of the World. I enjoyed Christina Thompson's book Sea People when i was writing mine, a great read if you're interested in the Pacific & the world's greatest ocean explorers bar none

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

New review up at the TLS on the real reason for the demographic collapse on Easter Island. https://t.co/cvpmQvdjsT

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

Albuquerque turned a wall of its airport bookshop over to its local university press, and goddamn, now I want this in every airport.

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@jozefandrew1 Follow that with a couple of postdocs and you can do this (with modest funding) for almost a decade. So fun. The only problem is what happens next 😐

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

Just six days of war in Iran cost us $11.3 billion. ‘What the [expletive] is wrong with us?’ https://t.co/g79FOnuoI4

[A.J. Goldmann @ajgoldmann]

Becca Rothfeld offers an astute reflection on the @washingtonpost bloodbath & the state of cultural criticism. What she says about newspapers fostering incuriosity, pandering to readers & chasing clicks sadly jives with what I put up with on a daily basis.
https://t.co/030uSZYVxi

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@DanFriedman81 @InternetGrape @HowRYouBud Blake Bailey and his biography of Roth, also Dr Seuss.

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

Spotted by my former intern in London @WaterstonesTraf — not just Sea People but Come on Shore. Wow and thank you, you excellent booksellers!

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

8 history books from different places and periods:

1) Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

( Polynesia )

[CM @clairewords]

@BookNoteApp @BoMandeville Sea People was such a great read.

https://t.co/724oWV5INa

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@clairewords @BookNoteApp @BoMandeville ❤️ Thank you!

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@PTogekiss @Trey_Explainer 😂

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@rind_guardian @Trey_Explainer “Original Moonshot” see @KeoluFox

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@LawrenceOVok @thatcommiecunt @Trey_Explainer 😂

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

One of the best history books I’ve read all year

I now believe more than ever that Ancient Polynesian navigators were some of the bravest and smartest people in human history

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@Trey_Explainer 🙏 glad it found you

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

And, she’s done it again! https://t.co/Lou0RpMn12

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

Australian writer Michelle de Kretser has won all the biggest prizes in Australia — many times over! She should be much better known here.

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

A lesson you have to continuously relearn: you can read and read and read and read, but at some point you just have to start writing.

[Christina Thompson @cathompsn]

@Arby_K @NicholasMorto11 Interesting list. Happy to be included!