Sarah Wildman
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Sep 8, 2026
Daniela GersonGUEST
So one element I found was I did have, like, a writing coach who worked with me.
Daniela GersonGUEST
Um, and when I got my book deal, there were a few editors, and one, [clears throat] excuse me, suggested I have a writing coach.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And I loved that because for me, you know, I had reported on other people.
Daniela GersonGUEST
I did a l- a few essays, but really this was much more personal than I had ever written.
Paul LernerHOST
Daniela Gerson is an award-winning reporter whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Dow Spiegel, Public Radio International, and the Financial Times, among many other venues.
Paul LernerHOST
An associate professor of journalism at Cal State University Northridge and editor-at-large at Zocalo Public Square, She previously worked as a community engagement editor at the LA Times and as a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun.
Paul LernerHOST
She's also directed programs at the intersection of civic engagement and news representation for USC's Annenberg School and the City University of New York's Newmark School.
Paul LernerHOST
The Wanderers is a truly extraordinary book, a story which seamlessly and elegantly interweaves the past and the present, a narrative at once deeply personal and of broader, indeed, universal relevance.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And it was at a time not unlike now, where the country was closing its doors to refugees, and about what people would do to get here.
Daniela GersonGUEST
The editor I worked with, who you've worked with, Sarah Wildman, um, at The New York Times, I told her, "You know, this is part of the story, but there's another part, which is that my wife Talia and I, our families are from the same town in Poland" And when I told her that, she was like, "Oh, now that's a book."
Sharon BrousHOST
Yeah.
Daniela GersonGUEST
[laughs]