S6E5. Louise Bokkenheuser

From her home in New York, Pulitzer finalist and Ebbe Munck Prize-winning Danish writer and editor LOUISE BOKKENHEUSER talks her upcoming novel How to Organize the World, and recalls her time as a war correspondent in Bagdad, Iraq for The Los Angeles Times and what her experience taught her about human beings' capabilities in treating each other. She further shares her thoughts on the state of journalism in the US, and on the US under a second Trump presidency.----------For today's episode, Louise Roug Bokkenheuser chose J.F. Willumsen's En bjergbestigerske, or A Mountain Climber, from 1912 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3413 ----------Photographer: Maury Loeb----------This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on January 27, 2025.----------We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:website: https://danishoriginals.com/                 email: [email protected]