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By Brendan O’Meara
Jared Sullivan is here. https://jared-sullivan-kisp.squarespace.com/about
He is the author of Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe. It’s published by Knopf.
https://bookshop.org/book/9780593321119
Jared’s book has gotten a prime review in The New York Times and was one of those four featured books in a recent issue of The New Yorker. You know the Briefly Noted section toward the back. It doesn’t matter what issue. What matters is that it was THERE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/books/review/valley-so-low-jared-sullivan.html
Jared Sullivan got his start primarily editing and admired the kinds of writers and reporters who do both well, like a David Remnick. Valley So Low is along the lines of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action https://bookshop.org/book/9780679772675 and illustrates the toll that greed and negligence exert on the people exposed to toxins and the cost cases of this nature take on the legal team, both financial and physical.
Jared’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Garden & Gun, Men’s Journal, and Field & Stream.
