Daniel Wakin @danwakin
Deputy int'l editor, NYT Opinion, ex-Met Opera, ex-AP, author of "The Man With the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block" (@NYCBlockTales) New York Joined September 2009-
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Spherical 'minibrains' to be grown on the International Space Station livescience.com/health/neurosc…
It's cool going to the office every day through a stage door.
=30= Newsfolks will recognize this ominous sign that something is over. In this case, my time at The Times. Today is my last day at that amazing place, after 22 years. Heading to the Met Opera as senior director for communications, starting March 21.
The romance of Iohan Gueorguiev's life, and his niche YouTube stardom, depended on chance meetings along the open road, travel unchecked by borders — everything that pandemic restrictions made impossible. He committed suicide at 33 years old. nytimes.com/2021/10/11/tra…
A memorable obit by my colleague Alex Traub, about an extraordinary character nytimes.com/2021/10/11/tra…
Here is some wordnerd summer fun from my @nytimes colleagues. I was happy to make a m-i-n-u-s-c-u-l-e (did I get that right?) contribution. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Christa Ludwig rose from straitened origins in a shattered wartime Germany to the height of the singing world, aided by a sense of discipline instilled by her strong-willed mother — her only real teacher and a constant presence throughout her career. nytimes.com/2021/04/25/art…
Here is a short video sample of Those We've Lost, the NYT Obits project remembering the Covid-19 dead. Music is courtesy of Wynton Marsalis, whose father Ellis was one of them. youtube.com/watch?v=lLTgwg…
Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62 nyti.ms/2ZRmHfg
It has been an honor working with writers like Schwartz, Leland and Randle -- quoted here -- on this series. So many other great ones too.
It has been an honor working with writers like Schwartz, Leland and Randle -- quoted here -- on this series. So many other great ones too.
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“You learn all of this stuff,” he once said. “And after a point, somebody has to tell you, ‘Forget it all, just go out and play.’” A great obit from @danwakin, who has left the NYT — but his advance obits live on. nytimes.com/2022/12/20/art…
Only @juliamoskin could weave together a Ukrainian American home cook's act of resistance, a deep history of Ukrainian food and fascinating #facts like the push to get UNESCO to certify borsch as a symbol of Ukrainian heritage, much like Korean kimchi. nytimes.com/2022/05/16/din…
📚 Oggi nel 1840 e nello stesso giorno del 1843 due sipari si alzavano su due prime assolute: all'Opéra-Comique di Parigi ci si preparava per "La Fille du régiment" di Donizetti e alla Scala a "I Lombardi alla prima crociata"di Verdi, due Opere che proporremo qui presto 📚
@benryanwriter Allow me to resurface this terribly sad story by @danwakin nytimes.com/2012/07/30/art…
"Kent State had haunted them both, from opposite ends of the lens." Patricia McCormick has written a stunning, heartbreaking story about the 14-year-old in the Kent State photo and the photographer who inadvertently made her famous. washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/…
@mpalmer_ @RyanLizza @jsidman I was irresistibly reminded of Herbert O'Clock, the unflappable company boss in the classic series of comic books about Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. cc @TCoretto @danwakin @peterhorst
My colleague @danwakin writes eloquently and painfully of the people for whom Covid took what Philip Larkin described as “time / Torn off unused." Rest in peace. nytimes.com/2020/12/30/obi…
According to sources who requested anonymity because they did not have permission to speak on the record, today marks my 25th anniversary at The New York Times.
Yupadee Kobkulboonsiri made complex couture jewelry and turned everyday objects into artworks. She could peel an apple in one stroke with her eyes closed. She died of the novel coronavirus. nyti.ms/3ebAKlt
U.S. Grant was declared a slaveholder last night and his statue toppled in Ohio. There was truth there; he owned a slave for two years. But history and human understanding suffered. Grants views evolved over the course of a bloody war to end slavery. By 1863 he #thread
During this time of coronavirus, it is more important than ever to listen to medical authorities. I am currently listening to Dr. Funkenstein and Parliament. Good for what ails us.
I realize that now when I look at @nytimes online, I go to the obituaries first. Painful to see how fast the volume increases. The obit writers may not be doing quite the work of health care professionals, but it is a noble response to the crisis nevertheless.
@danwakin Portraits of a Pandemic. A fusion of journalism and the heart. So important to have readers touching the real, individual loss and touching the real grief. Thanks, Dan.
@RealDonnieBBall @jackshafer Thank you. It was an honor to write about him.
THIS WOMAN IS MY HERO (Her NYC condo board asked residents to cancel newspaper deliveries out of coronavirus fears. This is her response. Name withheld by request.)
I’ll be reading two poems live on my “Taylor Mali (the poet)” Facebook account today at 1 pm (assuming BOTH my children are asleep by then). WARNING: One of them WILL BE “What Teachers Make”!
He appeared in the children’s chorus for the 1926 American premiere of Puccini’s uncompleted “Turandot,” and conducted his own ending to the work some nine decades later. @danwakin on Anton Coppola: nytimes.com/2020/03/09/art…
“I recommend completism. It’s a fine antidote to the fragmentation bomb of culture we live in and a chance to encompass an artist in totality.” @danwakin back on the classical music beat just long enough to remind us how we miss him as a writer. nytimes.com/2020/02/04/art…
A lot will be written about Kirk Douglas, but somehow I think this amazing story, from his memoir "The Ragman's Son," won't make the cut in most obits.
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