{{Short description|American writer}} {{Infobox person | name = James Pogue | image = James Pogue 2.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = | birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Journalist | title = | family = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | credits = | agent = | URL = }} '''James Pogue''' is an American essayist and journalist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Snyder |first1=Liz |title=Kenosha the Subject of Harper's Magazine Cover Story |url=https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/snyder-kenosha-the-focus-of-harpers-magazine-cover-story/article_0379715e-a135-5e9c-b44e-d753fce7f981.html |access-date=5 December 2021 |issue=4 August 2020 |publisher=The Kenosha News}}</ref> He is a Special Correspondent at ''Vanity Fair,'' a Contributing Opinion Writer at the ''New York Times,'' and a contributing editor at ''Harper's'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vanity Fair Masthead |url=https://vanityfair-staging.azurewebsites.net/article/2025/5/vanity-fair-2 |website=Vanity Fair |publisher=Conde Nast |access-date=16 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Maga's bit tech divide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-pogue.html |website=New York Times |access-date=16 June 2025}}</ref><ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web |title=James Pogue |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/es/node/2561 |website=Grantee Bio |publisher=Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting |access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="Guns">{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Good Guys With Guns |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2020/04/good-guys-with-guns-socialist-gun-club/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |issue=April, 2020 |publisher=Harper's Magazine}}</ref> He is the author of ''Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West'', a first-person account of conflict over public lands in the American west.
==Journalism== Pogue has written for publications including ''Vanity Fair,'' ''Harper's'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''The New York Times Magazine, and the ''London Review of Books''.<ref name="Pulitzer"/>''
Pogue grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has written frequently about midwestern politics.<ref name="Vance">{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Going Back to Cincinnati |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/going-back-to-cincinnati/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |publisher=The American Conservative}}</ref><ref name="kenoshanews">{{cite news |last1=Snyder |first1=Liz |title=Snyder : the Focus of Harper's magazine Cover Story |url=https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/snyder-kenosha-the-focus-of-harpers-magazine-cover-story/article_0379715e-a135-5e9c-b44e-d753fce7f981.html |access-date=5 December 2021 |publisher=The Kenosha News|url-access=subscription |date=8 August 2020}}</ref> His essay about the city's political history was collected in ''City by City'', published by FSG.<ref>{{cite book |title=City By City |editor-last1=Gessen |editor-first1=Keith |editor-last2=Squibb |editor-first2=Stephen |date=May 12, 2015 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713409/citybycity |access-date=4 December 2021 |isbn=978-0-37-471340-9 }}</ref>
His 2019 ''Harper's'' article on farm murders in South Africa has been frequently cited in academic literature.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hinton |first1=Alexander Laban |title=It Can Happen Here |date=2021 |isbn=9781479808021 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2wDEAAAQBAJ&dq=james+pogue+myth+of+white+genocide&pg=PT301}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Lewis R. |title=Freedom, Justice, And Decolonization |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781000244731 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uYLEAAAQBAJ&dq=james+pogue+myth+of+white+genocide&pg=PT127 |access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref> He has written about dissident Irish Republican Army groups in Northern Ireland<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Republicans |url=https://granta.com/republicans/ |website=Granta |date=3 May 2016 |publisher=Granta |access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref> and frequently about militia groups in the rural American west.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Miner Threat |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/miner-threat-0000747-v22n9/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |issue=September, 2015 |publisher=Vice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=In Oregon, This is Less the End Than The Beginning |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/magazine/in-oregon-this-is-less-the-end-than-it-is-the-beginning.html |access-date=4 December 2021 |publisher=The New York Times Magazine}}</ref>
His work on armed politics frequently intersects with reporting on environmental issues. Pogue has contributed reporting and opinion pieces to the Los Angeles Times on environmental policy,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Op-Ed: Salmon is an indicator species for California's water crisis. It's not looking good |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-27/salmon-sacramento-river-draining |access-date=4 December 2021 |date=June 27, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Op-Ed: Trump is making a last-minute push to turn a sacred Arizona oasis into a copper pit |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-13/oak-flat-arizona-copper-mining-apache |access-date=4 December 2021 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> and has written frequently about forestry and fire in California.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Send In The Clones |url=https://believermag.com/contributor/james-pogue/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |issue=124 |publisher=The Believer |date=April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=James |title=Soul on Fire |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/soul-on-fire-0000148-v20n11/ |publisher=Vice |date=November 13, 2013}}</ref>
==Books== Pogue is the author of ''Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West''. The book was called a "fascinating debut" by NPR,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schaub |first1=Michael |title=Long-Simmering Rage Leads to Rebellion in "Chosen Country" |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/05/23/612008524/long-simmering-rage-leads-to-rebellion-in-chosen-country |access-date=4 December 2021 |date=May 23, 2018}}</ref> and praised in the New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books and other publications.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kabat |first1=Jennifer |title=Hard Stands |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hard-stands/ |publisher=The Los Angeles Review of Books |date=June 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam |title=Bang for the Buck |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/guns-bang-for-the-buck/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |publisher=The New York Review of Books |date=April 5, 2018}}</ref> It was criticized by some publications for its personal narrative and essayistic digressions. Kirkus called the book "courageous," but cited "some excess and irrelevance."<ref>{{cite news |title=Chosen Country |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-pogue/chosen-country/ |access-date=4 December 2021 |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |date=May 22, 2018}}</ref>
==Achievements and honors== Pogue's work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship,<ref>{{cite web |title=Alicia Patterson Fellows |url=https://aliciapatterson.org/content/57th-annual-competition-fellowship-winners-2022 |access-date=18 April 2022 |website=Alicia Patterson Foundation |archive-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521224830/https://aliciapatterson.org/content/57th-annual-competition-fellowship-winners-2022 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and his 2019 essay about forestry in California was a "notable" selection in the 2020 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kaku |first1=Michio |title=Best American Science and Nature Writing |date=2020 |page=342 |isbn=9780358074243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVe_DwAAQBAJ&q=james+pogue}}</ref> He has appeared on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, and NPR's Today Explained.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Real Time with Bill Maher Ep 3: January 29, 2021: Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein, Van Jones {{!}} Official Website for the HBO Series {{!}} HBO.com |url=https://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/season-19/3-january-29-2021-heather-heying |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=www.hbo.com |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Transcript: All In with Chris Hayes, 4/26/22 |url=https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/all-in/transcript-all-chris-hayes-4-26-22-n1294962 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Today, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/today-explained |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=www.vox.com |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://pulitzercenter.org/people/james-pogue Grantee Page at the Pulitzer Center] *[https://thebaffler.com/authors/james-pogue Author page at The Baffler] *[https://harpers.org/author/jamespogue/ Author Page at ''Harper's'']
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