Voice of Witness is delighted to announce our next title, Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice, can now be pre-ordered through the McSweeney’s Store! Edited by author and civil rights attorney Alia Malek, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror. In their own words, narrators recount personal experiences of the post-9/11 backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.
“Gripping. This is an important book that takes us beyond the featureless generalities of the post-9/11 drama to show us the particular experiences of individual human beings, each one living a life unlike any other.” —Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York
This spring, Voice of Witness editors and staff visited Columbia University to present and discuss Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime. Check out the video below to learn more about Voice of Witness and our book of narratives from Burma.
Voice of Witness Seeking Spanish-Speaking Volunteers!
Voice of Witness is currently seeking volunteers who are fluent in Spanish to help transcribe interviews for two forthcoming books. If you are a fluent Spanish speaker who can contribute approximately 6 to 12 hours over a two to three week period to transcribe an interview, we’d love to hear from you!
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.
Voice of Witness is delighted to announce our next title, Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice, can now be pre-ordered through the McSweeney’s Store! Edited by author and civil rights attorney Alia Malek, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror. In their own words, narrators recount personal experiences of the post-9/11 backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.
