Episode 196 - Stephen Kurczy.

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Stephen Kurczy.

Stephen Kurczy is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and VICE, among other outlets. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a 2016-2017 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism. His fifteen-year career began as a community newspaper reporter, winning top prizes from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Press Association. He has since reported on finance, global affairs, and mega sports events as a foreign correspondent from more than a dozen countries. He has also received recognition from Columbia University for his writing. Kurczy has lived without a cell phone for over a decade. Learn more at stephenkurczy.com or follow him on Twitter @StephenKurczy.

About the book: Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It’s home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory’s telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker.

* Website: http://www.stephenkurczy.com

* Buy The Quiet Zone: https://hc.com/thequietzone

* You can also buy signed copies here: https://www.banksquarebooks.com/signed-copies

* Buy on Indiebound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062945495

* Audiobook prologue: https://soundcloud.com/harperaudio_us/the-quiet-zone-by-stephen-kurczy

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