Longform Jouralism: Hiroshima via The New Yorker (originally published 1946) – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Longform Jouralism: Hiroshima via The New Yorker (originally published 1946)

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Hiroshima

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died. Photograph from Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty (Note: shared here for educational purposes)

Note: exceptional piece of longform writing, crafted in the aftermath of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki 1945 and published a year afterwards. hyber-personal character storytelling in the wake of calamity.

Originally published By now available in full in The New Yorker

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