Michael Capuzzo
Also known as: Mike Capuzzo
Michael Capuzzo is an American journalist and author best known for his New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books The Murder Room and Close to Shore. Capuzzo was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area before he studied journalism at Northwestern University in Illinois. He was a reporter with the Miami Herald before joining the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he received four Pulitzer Prize nominations before becoming a freelance writer. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland in 2011, during which time he completed The Murder Room and was mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French. Capuzzo is also the author of four books about animals. Source: [Wikipedia](
The smell of the sea pulled him east.
— from Close to shore, 2001
Most acclaimed
Close to shore
2001
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916
Wild things
1996
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things , Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.
Our Best Friends
Three children and their pets meet, become friends, and quarrel and laugh and love each other like dear friends do.