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Jeb Sharp is an American radio journalist. She is a reporter for the public radio program PRI's The World and host of The World's history podcast How We Got Here. She covers U.S. foreign policy and human rights as well as a wide range of other international stories. She has reported for the program from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She is best known for radio documentaries on the history of Iraq, the history of U.S. - Iranian relations, the legacy of the Rwandan genocide and how wars end. She has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs. Other honors include the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

Some of her better-known series and reports include:

• The Darfur Conflict^[1]
• Rape & The Congo^[2]
• The Rwanda Series^[2]
• How Wars End^[3]
• The United States and Iran^[4]

Sharp edits and maintains a blog,^[5] detailing her work and providing a behinds the scenes look as she pursues her investigative work. She also produces a weekly podcast called "How We Got Here" that looks at history behind contemporary news stories.^[6]

She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006. Since 1938 more than 1,300 journalists from the U.S. and 88 other countries been awarded Nieman fellowships. Nieman Fellowships are awarded to "print, broadcast and online reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and cartoonists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media."

Sharp attended the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and began her career at KCAW-FM in Sitka, Alaska. She has also worked at WBUR, a public radio station, in Boston, Massachusetts.

References[link]

External links[link]

• The World
• Public Radio International

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Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder at the College of Wooster, 2009.
Born	(1945-11-12) November 12, 1945 (age 66) New York, New York
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Iowa
Genres	Non-fiction
Literary movement	Literary journalism
Notable work(s)	The Soul of a New Machine Mountains Beyond Mountains
Notable award(s)	Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction 1982 The Soul of a New Machine

John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He also received much praise for his biography of Paul Farmer, Mountains Beyond Mountains.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and education[link]

Kidder was born November 12, 1945, in New York City.^[1]:263 He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963.^[2] He attended Harvard University, originally majoring in political science but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald.^[3] He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967.^[1]:263

He served in the US Army as a first lieutenant, Military Intelligence, Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969.^[1]:263 After returning from Vietnam he wrote for some time and then enrolled in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[4]:128 He received an MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1974.^[1]:263

Career[link]

Kidder wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba City: a Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, while at the University of Iowa. The Atlantic Monthly commissioned the work, and he continued writing as a freelancer for the magazine during the 1970s.^[4]:128 The Road to Yuba City was a critical failure,^{[4]:128, 137} and Kidder said in a 1995 interview that "I can't say anything intelligent about that book, except that I learned never to write about a murder case. The whole experience was disgusting, so disgusting, in fact, that in 1981 I went to Doubleday and bought back the rights to the book. I don't want The Road to Yuba City to see the light of day again."^[4]:129

Kidder said that, unlike many other writers, he was not much influenced by his Vietnam experience: "Of course, whenever you're in an experience like Vietnam, it is bound to influence your work; it's inevitable, but I really don't think it greatly shaped me as a writer."^[4]:128 His works for Atlantic Monthly include several essays and short stories about the Vietnam War, including "The Death of Major Great" (1974), "Soldiers of Misfortune" (1978), and "In Quarantine" (1980). Writing in 1997, David Bennett rated these three pieces "among the finest reporting to come out of Vietnam."^[4]:128

His second book, The Soul of a New Machine, was much more successful than his first, and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1982. He has continued to write nonfiction books and articles, and these have been well received by the critics.^[4]:127

Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing.^[5]:5 He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell.^{[4]:127–128} In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think."^[5]:7

Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable."^[6]

Kidder's latest book, Strength in What Remains, is a vivid and moving portrait of a man who survived the genocide in Burundi.

Selected awards[link]

• Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, 1982, for The Biography of Daniel Minnich^[7]
• National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1982, for The Soul of a New Machine^[8][a]
• Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1989–1990, for Among Schoolchildren^[9]
• Ambassador Book Award in American Studies, 1990, for Among Schoolchildren^[10]
• Lettre Ulysses Award (2nd prize), 2004, for Mountains Beyond Mountains^[11]

Books by Tracy Kidder[link]

• Kidder, Tracy (1974). The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders. Garden City: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-02865-3. 
• Kidder, Tracy (2000) [1981]. The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Back Bay Books. ISBN 0-316-49197-7. 
• Kidder, Tracy (1985). House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-00191-3. 
• Kidder, Tracy (1990) [1989]. Among Schoolchildren. New York: New York : Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-71089-7. 
• Kidder, Tracy (1993). Old Friends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-71088-3. 
• Kidder, Tracy (2000) [1999]. Home Town. New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN 0-671-78521-4. 
• Kidder, Tracy (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50616-0. 
• Kidder, Tracy (2005). My Detachment: A Memoir. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50615-2. 
• Kidder, Tracy (2009). Strength in What Remains. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6621-6. 

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kidder's web site
• Lyceum Agency
• Works by or about Tracy Kidder in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• 1985 audio interview of Tracy Kidder at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
• Works by Tracy Kidder on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• C-SPAN Q&A interview with Kidder, October 11, 2009

Modest Mouse
Background information
Origin	Issaquah, Washington, United States
Genres	Indie rock, experimental rock, indie folk, lo-fi (early)
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Epic, Up, K, Matador
Associated acts	Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Seasick Steve, Ugly Casanova, The Smiths, The Cribs, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Built to Spill, Grandaddy, The Helio Sequence, Zeus Jimenez, Big Boi, Mister Heavenly, Satisfact
Website	www.modestmousemusic.com
Members
Isaac Brock Eric Judy Jeremiah Green Joe Plummer Tom Peloso Jim Fairchild
Past members
Robin Peringer John Wickhart Dann Gallucci Benjamin Weikel Johnny Marr

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon.^[1][2] They were formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) joined the band in May 2006, along with percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Guitarist Jim Fairchild joined the band in February 2009. Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."^[3]

History[link]

Formation and early years: 1994-1999[link]

In 1994, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Eric Judy and John Wickhart recorded their first EP, Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?, at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios. It was released by K Records. A single, "Broke", followed under Sub Pop that was recorded by Steve Wold (now better known as bluesman Seasick Steve) at Moon Studios. During this time, Modest Mouse also recorded what would have been their first album, Sad Sappy Sucker, but constant delays caused the album to be shelved and forgotten. It was not until 2001 that it was officially released. Until making waves in the pop music world in 2004, many of their tours included stops at DIY/punk venues.

After moving to Up Records,^[4] Modest Mouse released two full-length albums and other recordings recorded at Moon Studios, including the 1996 LP This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. This album was produced and recorded by Steve Wold (at the time Wold was assisting in the recordings as well, but was not officially part of the band). The next offering was Interstate 8, also produced by Wold. The 1997 album, The Lonesome Crowded West, (also recorded at Moon Studios, by Scott Swayze) turned out to serve as the band's breakthrough. The Lonesome Crowded West gained the band a cult following, and is now popularly considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-1990s indie rock. Prior to its release, the band had recorded the EP The Fruit That Ate Itself. In 1999, Up Records released a singles and rarities collection entitled Building Nothing Out of Something, which included the entirety of Interstate 8 except for the songs "Edit the Sad Parts" and "Buttons to Push the Buttons".

Critical success: 2000-2002[link]

In 2000, Modest Mouse released The Moon & Antarctica, their first album on Epic Records. Due in large part to a broken jaw Brock suffered a few months prior, the album ended up being more instrumental than their previous works. Not knowing if he would be able to sing, Brock focused on making a more instrumental and experimental album.^[5] The band enjoyed some success on alternative radio with the singles "3rd Planet" and "Gravity Rides Everything." The album was critically well-received^[6] including a 9.8 out of 10 score from online music magazine, Pitchfork Media.^[7] It has subsequently gone on to receive further acclaim.^[8] Brock has since released an album with his side project Ugly Casanova on Sub Pop, which was the only side project allowed due to the contract. The band licensed "Gravity Rides Everything" for a commercial for Nissan's Quest minivan, a move that Brock has publicly acknowledged as blatantly commercial but necessary to achieve financial stability. Regarding the commercial, Brock stated, "People who don't play music for a living can criticize my morals while they live off their parents' money or wash dishes for some asshole."^[9]

In 2001, Modest Mouse released the EP Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, a collection of unused songs from the recording sessions of The Moon and Antarctica. In 2002, they joined Cake, De La Soul, The Flaming Lips, The Hackensaw Boys and Kinky on the Unlimited Sunshine Tour.

Mainstream success and line-up changes: 2003-2009[link]

In March 2003, Green left the band after suffering a nervous breakdown;^[10] the official word was that he was leaving to work with his side project, Vells. The same year, he and bass guitarist Eric Judy appeared on Adam Forkner's first solo album, VVRSSNN. Green was replaced by two new members, drummer Benjamin Weikel (who also drummed for The Helio Sequence, as well as playing keyboard) and guitarist Dann Gallucci (who had been a member of Modest Mouse previously, and appears on Sad Sappy Sucker and The Lonesome Crowded West). On April 6, 2004, Modest Mouse released their fourth album, the platinum-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which had two hits with "Float On" and "Ocean Breathes Salty" (both of which they performed on Saturday Night Live on November 13, 2004^[11]). The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Rock Album that year. Later that year, Green returned to the band, and Weikel returned to drumming exclusively for The Helio Sequence. Gallucci left the band in August.

In May 2006, Dann Gallucci (who had left the band amicably in September 2004) was replaced on guitar by Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths. Their next album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, was released on March 20, 2007^[12] after being delayed from December 19, 2006. It was the first Modest Mouse album to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 charts, and had the hit single "Dashboard", as well as "Missed the Boat" and "We've Got Everything". Modest Mouse released singles for the songs "Satellite Skin", "Autumn Beds" and "Perpetual Motion Machine" in limited editions (a run of 4,000 each) vinyl 7 inches, featuring artwork by art director and illustrator Joshua Marc Levy, J.Alex Stamos, and Natasha Wheat.

The band began a North American tour in June 2008. The band returned to Florida for the first time since their November 2006 Bang Music Festival show where they were cut off stage early, with three shows in Miami, Orlando and St. Augustine.^[13] While an update on the Modest Mouse blog was subtitled catching up on some words for the next tour, it is in fact the lyrics to Heart Cooks Brain.^[14] Modest Mouse finished their tour supporting We Were Dead after two years of promoting the record.

Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy and All Smiles replaced Marr as guitarist, when Marr left the band after joining The Cribs, beginning with the support of No One's First and You're Next, which was released on August 4, 2009,^[15] composed of unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.^[16]

Recent years: 2010-present[link]

In 2010 The Moon & Antarctica was re-released on vinyl for the first time in ten years as part of Record Store Day.^[17]

On July 4, 2010 the band headlined the second day of the 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, ^[18] and the first day of the End Of The Road Festival in Dorset, England, on September 10, 2010.^[19] At the end of August 2010, Modest Mouse played on the main stage at the Leeds and Reading festivals.

On April 28, 2011, Big Boi said via Twitter that he had been in the studio with Modest Mouse working with them on their next LP.^[20] On May 29th Modest Mouse played two new songs during their headline of the Sasquatch festival. The songs were called "Poison the Well" and "Lampshades on Fire".^[21] They then contributed a cover of the Buddy Holly song "That'll Be The Day" to the compilation Rave On Buddy Holly, which was released on June 28, 2011. Recently Modest Mouse had played at Splendour in the Grass in Woodford, Queensland on July 29th, 2011,^[22] and The Warfield in San Francisco on January 25th, 2012.

According to e-mails sent from Glacial Pace which responded to fans confused about the large gaps between albums, Modest Mouse is indeed currently writing and recording material and have been for quite some time. But despite this, the e-mail also reminds fans that the fact that Isaac named his record label "Glacial Pace" was not an accident. Thus, it remains unclear when Modest Mouse will finally release their next album.

Members[link]

Current

• Isaac Brock – lead vocals, guitars, banjo, ukulele (1993–present)
• Eric Judy – bass guitar, Acoustic Guitar (1993–present)
• Jeremiah Green– drums, percussion (1993–2003, 2004–present)
• Joe Plummer – drums, percussion (2004–present)
• Tom Peloso – guitars, upright bass, keyboards, fiddle, horns (2004–present)

Touring members

• Jim Fairchild – guitars, vocals (2005, 2009–present)
• Robin Peringer – guitar (2000–2003)

Former

• John Wickhart – bass guitar (1994–1995)
• Dann Gallucci – guitars (1997–1998, 2003–2004)
• Benjamin Weikel – drums (2003–2004)
• Johnny Marr – guitars, vocals (2006–2009)^[23]

Discography[link]

• This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
• The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
• The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
• Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
• We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

References[link]

No One's First and You're Next Release Date: Sat, 08/01/2009

External links[link]

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Jeb Corliss (born March 25, 1976 near Santa Fe, New Mexico^[1]) is a professional skydiver and BASE jumper. He has jumped from sites including Paris' Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2]

Jeb Corliss is co-founder of 3 Triple 7, a clothing label.

He was also the original host of the Discovery Channel series Stunt Junkies, appearing in 13 episodes, but was fired by Discovery as a result of his arrest (below).

On September 25, 2011 Corliss jumped out of a helicopter at 6,000 feet and glided through a 100-ft wide archway in Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, landing with a parachute on a nearby bridge.^[3][4]

Arrest[link]

In April 2006, Jeb Corliss attempted to BASE jump off the observation deck of the Empire State Building, while wearing a camera, but was restrained by building security and arrested by the NYPD. As a result, Corliss received three years probation and 100 hours community service,^[2] which was at one point overturned by a Manhattan state judge on the basis that Corliss "was experienced and careful enough to jump off a building without endangering his own life or anyone else’s".^[5] This sentence was affirmed in January 2009.^[6] Corliss was later permanently banned from setting foot in the Empire State Building.^[7]

B.A.S.E. Jumping Related Accidents[link]

1999[link]

In 1999, Jeb Corliss had a near-fatal BASE jump into the Howick Falls, a waterfall in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The waterfall is approximately 95 meters in height (310 feet) and lies on the Umgeni River. The Zulu people called the falls KwaNogqaza, which means "Place of the Tall One". His chute opening was asymmetric and he could not avoid flying into the downpouring water.

2012[link]

On 16 January 2012 in an accident while proximity flying off Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa Jeb broke both ankles, three toes, his fibula bone, tore his left ACL, and sustained a gash in his shin that required skin grafts to close. He struck his legs approximately halfway between the hip and knee on a rock ledge he was attempting to skim over while aiming at a target balloon. The impact caused him to tumble forward one revolution before he regained control in order to clear some additional ledges. He then deployed his chute. He was airlifted out by the Red Cross Air Mercy Service Agusta 119. He has recovered, is up and walking and plans to return to life as usual. A video of the accident has been released. ^[8][9]

References[link]

• Corliss is featured in the last chapter of Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers: Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them, by Michael Abrams. ISBN 1-4000-5491-5.
• Hutchinson, Bill (April 28, 2006). "Been there, leaped off that". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/412843p-349081c.html. Retrieved 2007-01-18. 
• Parachuteless Parachuting
• Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute - New York Times.

External links[link]

• Jeb Corliss wing-suit demo flights video
• Weekend America - Interview with Jeb Corliss
• Outlawing Creative Subversions
• The Ground is the Limit at the Internet Movie Database
• MySpace
• Daredevils: The Human Bird - Channel 4 (UK) television documentary, 2009
• Grinding the Crack

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Jeb Bishop photo courtesy Seth Tisue

Jeb Bishop, mœrs festival 2010

Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player.

He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and philosophy at North Carolina State University, and philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Arizona, Loyola University, and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

In the 1980s, he played electric bass and electric guitar in rock bands including Stillborn Christians, Egg, and/or, and the Angels of Epistemology^[1] (a band based in Raleigh and Chapel Hill that released a CD on Merge Records).

In the 1990s, he moved to Chicago and began transitioning from rock to jazz music. He played bass guitar in The Flying Luttenbachers (a jazz/rock band) and a jazz group led by Ken Vandermark^[1] called the Unheard Music Quartet. By the mid 1990s he was performing in public on the trombone while also playing electric guitar (and trombone) in the Vandermark Five. He has also been a member of several of Vandermark's other groups including School Days.

By 2000 or so he was focusing exclusively on trombone and formed his own trio, the Jeb Bishop Trio, with Vandermark Five cohorts bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Tim Mulvenna.^[2] The trio has two CDs on OkkaDisk, the second with guest guitarist Jeff Parker.

Bishop has also performed and recorded with a great many other local, national, and international musicians. He is a member of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet and has recorded duo albums with Joe McPhee and Sebi Tramontana. He has recorded and toured with English improvisers Tony Bevan and John Edwards. Regular Chicago collaborators include Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Josh Abrams, and Hamid Drake.

In 2005, Bishop left the Vandermark Five and his live performances became infrequent. He cited problems with tinnitus; it was feared he had retired from music altogether. However, he became more musically active again the following year.

References[link]

External links[link]

• official site
• 1999 profile in the Chicago Reader
• interview at All About Jazz