From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. 'Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' Starring Frances McDormand Lands at Fox Searchlight'.

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^ 'Jessica Bruder | Nantucket Book Festival'.'In 'Nomadland,' the Golden Years Are the Wander Years'. ^ 'Jessica Bruder | Harper's Magazine'.^ 'NYC Guide to Restaurants, Fashion, Nightlife, Shopping, Politics, Movies'.'Oscar winner 'Nomadland' based on book by former Oregon journalist'. ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, Amy Wang | The ().About the Author (Jessica Burder '00),, Retrieved 5 March 2019 ^ 'Jessica Bruder | School of Journalism'.Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. Named a New York Times 2017 Notable Book, Nomadland won the 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and was a finalist for the J. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving, from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. She also produced the film CamperForce, directed by Brett Story.įor her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (2017), she spent months living in a camper van named Van Halen, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing to hit the road full-time. Her first book was Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man. She also writes for WIRED, New York and Harper's Magazine. She worked in The Oregonian's now-closed Clackamas County bureau for nearly two years between 20, primarily covering breaking news, crime and the courts. Work Writing īruder has written for The New York Times since 2003. She graduated from Amherst College in 2000 and received a master's in journalism from Columbia University in 2005. Early life īruder grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. Jessica Bruder is an American journalist who writes about subcultures and teaches narrative writing at Columbia Journalism School.

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