Pop-up Salon: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist John Branch

The Pop-Up Salon is an interactive discussion about sports and adventure journalism. The Salon encourages participants to explore new ideas in facilitated conversation and then together, informally, while enjoying refreshments. This is the first in a series of Pop-Up Salons in which Nevada Humanities is bringing its popular Salon format “on the road” to locations around the state of Nevada. This is also the first in the Nevada Humanities Campfire Gatherings: A Year of Pulitzer Prize Explorations in Nevada series, that brings Pulitzer Prize winning authors, poets, and journalists to the Silver State for intimate conversations on various topics. This program is free and open to all.

 

John Branch has been a sports reporter for the New York Times since 2005. He has covered a broad range of sports-related stories on professional football, high school basketball, professional rodeo, and the importance of running to the Hopi culture. Branch’s 2011 New York Times series “Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer” about Derek Boogaard was adapted into the book Boy On Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard which won the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting.

 

Branch was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his engaging story “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” as story the Pulitzer organization called an “… evocative narrative about skiers killed in an avalanche and the science that explains such disasters, a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements.”

 

Join us for a discussion on the science of avalanches, mountain adventure, and an insider’s look at professional sports.