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Donovan Hohn is a writer whose work has appeared in Harpers Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and Hopwood Awards in essay and poetry. A former high school English teacher, and a former senior editor at Harpers, he is now the features editor at GQ. Raised in San Francisco, he lives with his wife and sons in New York City.


Next week, at the invitation of Duncan Murrell and Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, I head to North Carolina to join forces with the musician Django Haskins and the media artist Marina Zurkow. Details from press release below.

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“The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn't think I'd like to meet the imaginary child they implied. That child was mad with contradictions. He was a machine-gun-toting, Chopin-playing psychopath with a sugar high and a short attention span.”
Donovan Hohn, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

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