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For the tenth episode of Drafting the Past, I interviewed historian and journalist David M. Perry. David is the author of many, many essays (find the whole amazing list here), as well as Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (Penn State University Press, 2015). More recently, he is the co-author, with Matthew Gabriele, of The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (HarperCollins, 2021). Our conversation covered everything from how David uses a recorder to draft his work, how he and Matthew approached co-writing, how he came to love writing after first considering it an ordeal, and much more.
MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:
- Matthew Gabriele, David’s co-author on The Bright Ages
- The piece on his mother’s desk that David was talking about while we talked: “An ornate desk, family history and the Jewish Past,” The Washington Post
- Another piece David mentioned, about immigration and the public charge rule, “Can Biden Minimize the Cruelty of the Public Charge Rule?,” The Nation
- Helen Rosner, “Christ in the Garden of Endless Breadsticks,” Eater
- Irina Dumitrescu
- Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack, Letters from an American
- Elizabeth Boyle, Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past
- Talia Lavin on Twitter
- Helen Rosner on Twitter
- Lyz Lenz on Twitter
- Clint Smith on Twitter
- And David’s own Twitter account
TRANSCRIPT (COMING SOON)
