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In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear — and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mo

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In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear -- and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mooallem digs into this story and asks us to consider how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival -- and the natural world at large.

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Mooallem, author of the book Wild Ones , tells this story to illustrate a point: that the way we think and feel about animals can change, and drastically. "The teddy bear was born into this spasm of extermination. Close to half a million wolves were slaughtered in this time, and the grizzly bear was wiped out of 90% of its original territory

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In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear -- and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mooallem digs into this toy story and asks us to consider how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival -- and the natural world at large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Mooallem
Jon Mooallem is an American journalist and author. Career Journalism. Mooallem is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he often writes about the relationship between humans and animals. Mooallem is a contributor to American Public Radio's series This American Life. He is

https://goodmeetings.com/2014/06/ted-talk-jon-mooallem-the-strange-story-of-the-teddy-bear/
TED Talk. Jon Mooallem: The strange Story of the Teddy Bear … 2.06.2014 Christina Feyerke … and why a beast's image changed from ferocious to cuddly. Independent of one another, Morris Michtom in the USA and Richard Steiff in Germany hatched the same idea at the same time: In 1902/1903 they simultaneously created a plaything that was later to become an iconic item even for collectors.

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My latest book is a collection of essays called SERIOUS FACE.People like it. (⭐️Publisher's Weekly: "A rich collection, a portrait of human resilience and helplessness" ⭐️Booklist: "Readers will laugh and tear up" ⭐️BookPage: "Such a gifted storyteller it almost doesn't matter what he's writing about" ⭐️Kirkus: "A master essayist" ⭐️The TODAY Show, best summer read: "If you

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Jon Mooallem's book, Wild Ones , examines our relationship with wild animals both familiar and feral, telling stories of the North American environmental movement from its unlikely birth, and following three species who've come to symbolize our complicated relationship with whatever "nature" even means anymore. Mooallem has written about

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Writer Jon Mooallem tells the story of the teddy bear, and considers how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival — and the natural world at

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Jon Mooallem. @jmooallem. Writer. @nytmag. Author, SERIOUS FACE, THIS IS CHANCE! and WILD ONES. Head of The Daylighters Club, the world's premiere pandemic walking club for kids. jonmooallem.com Joined August 2009. 1,313 Following.

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The Sunday Read: 'How Noah Baumbach Made "White Noise" a Disaster Movie for Our Moment'. When the world shut down in 2020, the filmmaker found solace in Don DeLillo's supposedly

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/books/review/this-is-chance-alaska-earthquake-jon-mooallem.html
The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together. By Jon Mooallem. A thrill junkie who embraced every tempest of nature, John Muir was in Yosemite in 1872 when an earthquake made

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/magazine/manolete-matador-face.html
Jon Mooallem is a contributing writer for the magazine and the author of a new book of essays, "Serious Face." This article originated as a performance for Pop-Up Magazine. 348.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/03/30/this-is-chance-genie-chance-jon-mooallem/
Genie Chance with dahlias, Alaska. (Courtesy Jan Blankenship and Jon Mooallem.) Genie Chance (January 24, 1927-May 17, 1998) is the protagonist of Jon Mooallem's uncommonly wonderful book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together (public library). Driving the heart of this scrupulously researched

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/237313/jon-mooallem/
Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large with The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other radio shows and magazines, including This American Life and Wired.His first book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker

https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jon-mooallem
Jon Mooallem writes obituaries and features for The Wall Street Journal. Jon joined the Journal in 2024 after 18 years as a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, where he wrote

https://lithub.com/jon-mooallem-writes-in-the-morning-before-the-world-snuffs-out-his-brief-glimmer-of-positivity/
Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large with The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other radio shows and magazines, including This American Life and Wired.His first book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker

https://www.altaonline.com/books/a44951425/writers-room-jon-mooallem/
By Anita Felicelli Published: Sep 25, 2023. John Lok. n New Year's Day of 2022, a fire, possibly electrical, gutted the space where Jon Mooallem writes, a guest room over the detached garage of his family home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The island is "more vulnerable to disruptions," so it was questionable whether the fire truck

https://www.amazon.com/This-Chance-Shaking-All-American-Together/dp/0525509917
Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other magazines and radio shows, including This American Life and Wired. He has spoken at TED and collaborated with members of the Decemberists on musical storytelling projects.

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Jon Mooallem is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. His first book comes out May 16. It's called Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/magazine/spokane-indians-minor-league-baseball.html
Jon Mooallem is a writer at large for the magazine and the author of a book about the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, "This Is Chance!" His book of essays, "Serious Face," will be

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ones-Sometimes-Dismaying-Reassuring/dp/B01L9F1G3E
Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other magazines and radio shows, including This American Life and Wired. He has spoken at TED and collaborated with members of the Decemberists on musical storytelling projects.

https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Face-Essays-Jon-Mooallem/dp/0525509941
The Wall Street Journal has called his writing "as much art as it is journalism," and Jia Tolentino has praised his "grace and command.". In Serious Face, Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays