Writer. Runner. Ex-Nytimes. Co-author with the great artist Julie Green of upcoming book, "First Meal," to be published in 2023. [email protected]
Seattle, Washington
Joined February 2009
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Tomorrow at @THSEA @kljohnso and Theo Downes-Le Guin discuss the art of the late Julie Green and the profound symbolism of food in the journeys of wrongfully convicted people townhallseattle.org/event/ki…
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This Friday at 10:30 AM at the Corvallis Museum, @kljohnso and Theo Downes-Le Guin discuss the art of the late Julie Green and the profound symbolism of food in the journeys of wrongfully convicted people. bentoncountymuseums.org/even…
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12/13 at 7:30 PM | @kljohnso and Theo Downes-Le Guin discuss the art of the late Julie Green and the profound symbolism of food in the journeys of wrongfully convicted people. bit.ly/47itLC8
ALT On top: Headshots of Kirk Johnson and Theo Downes-Le Guin with the book cover of "First Meal." On the bottom: Red rectangle with white text that says "Kirk Johnson with Theo Downes-Le Guin. 12/13 at 7:30 PM."
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Grateful to the team at @osupress for trusting me to help with the book First Meal, by Julie Green and @kljohnso, and grateful to @belt_magazine for running this excerpt. It’s a story of art, food, and justice, set in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood: beltmag.com/first-meal/
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Genuinely impressed with the lineup of book events celebrating University Press Week in November, including @dan_sinykin in NY, @thesusanito in San Francisco, and (a personal favorite) @kljohnso discussing his @osupress book in Portland: upweek.up.hcommons.org/celeb…
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Author @kljohnso and @DerekKrissoff discuss First Meal, a book about wrongful conviction and its aftermath as seen through the lens of art, food, and choice. today.oregonstate.edu/story/…
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Proud to have landed a job helping @osupress with First Meal, by @kljohnso and Julie Green—a book at the intersection of food, art, and justice. DMs are open if you’re interested in possible coverage! Here’s the press release: drive.google.com/file/d/1VcK…
I'm honored to share the news that my book with the great artist Julie Green -- about wrongful conviction and its aftermath, through the lens of art, food and choice -- will be published October 1 by osupress.oregonstate.edu/boo…
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Anyone else seeing retweets and likes on old tweets, some going back years, from accounts you’ve never heard of? No common thread, no comments, just a lot of burbling activity.
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Please consider reading this story about Craig Coyner, a former mayor who spent decades serving the less fortunate and shaping the city he loved before ending up homeless and frostbitten, surrounded by the prosperity he helped create.
nytimes.com/2023/04/28/us/be…
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"You don't realize how small you are until you look up at this gigantic wave coming at you."
One of the most challenging water-rescue training programs in the world is run by the Coast Guard on the Columbia River when the conditions are at their roughest. nyti.ms/3KleqIS
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Rare birds and fish out of water, vanishing snow, prescribed burns on trial, cultural sites revealed by a dwindling Lake Powell, the messy energy transition, and more
getrevue.co/profile/Rockies-… ht @PetersonOutside @kljohnso @thatsMohrlikeit @zak_podmore @ColoradoSun @EENewsUpdates
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You think this is about snow, but it's about people, of course, as all good stories are. Great work from @kljohnso and stunning photos from my old pal @rfremson nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/no…
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Some of the Black farmworkers had worked the Mississippi Delta for 20 years or more. They were asked to train new white laborers from South Africa. And then they were let go. @mirjordan on the dynamics of global labor in a region with a history of racism. nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/bl…
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For more than two decades, Julie Green rendered death row prisoners’ requests for a last meal on a series of plates, bringing a human face to capital punishment. nyti.ms/3ERWyPF
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Seattle residents are faced with two choices for their next city attorney: Ann Davison, a former Democrat turned Republican or Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, a self-described police “abolitionist." Some residents are wary of both. nyti.ms/3nHhpyk
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Three weeks before he died, Sam Anthony mailed his last wishes to a man he’s never met.
A story of two men who squeezed a life’s relationship into the final 11 days.
nytimes.com/2021/10/09/us/po…
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A longtime aeronaut and ballooning teacher in Washington said her list of new students is bigger this summer than at any time in 25 years, with about two-thirds of them ages 20-35. st.news/3siniUJ
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She will never brag in his space about herself so allow me please: @abbygoodnough is one of the finest journalists out there, at the heart of so much of our vaccine coverage this year & part of Pulitzer team. Now she is lifting up others as an editor. Lucky team, hers.
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Chuck Strum was a very beloved @nytimes editor: wise, encouraging, and so funny. This fierce protector of standards and sworn enemy of pomposity died last night at 73. So raise a Plymouth gin martini - his drink - to Chuck, and to all who give meaning and life to a newsroom.