Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

External links
Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air talks to Hochschild about To End All Wars
Interview about the craft of writing with the Columbia Journal
C-SPAN recording of a speech to the National Council on Public History
Video conversation with Hochschild about King Leopold's Ghost
Book excerpts:
An excerpt from Bury the Chains
New edition afterword from King Leopold’s Ghost
Articles:
reporting from eastern Congo New York Review of Books August 2009
from Mother Jones
on narrative writing starting on p. As a college student he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. In the mid-1970s he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.

Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American author journalist and lecturer. His well-known works include King Leopold's Ghost To End All Wars Bury the Chains The Mirror at Midnight and The Unquiet Ghost.