When I queried the editor who had given me the credential, he said, “You know, Atlantic readers aren’t really interested in Indians.”
Judith Nies is the award winning author of four nonfiction books including Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West (Nation Books, 2014). She has published essays and book reviews in Orion, American Voice, Women’s Review of Books, and Solstice Literary Magazine. Her current book in progress is called The Long Forgetting: America’s Origin Stories Retold, about how the codfish aristocracy of early Massachusetts became the Boston Brahmins.