00:33:51.030 --> 00:33:57.060 00:28:26.610 --> 00:28:37.410 Sarah Maslin Nirs The Flying Horse, the first in a series of middle grade novels based on real horses and the people who love them, was inspired by an experience Nir, a reporter at The New York Times, shared in her 2020 memoir Horse Crazy. In 2016, the Dutch warmblood Trendsetter, whom she had purchased a week after her fathers death two years earlier, stumbled and pitched forward while she was riding him in a competition. 00:12:47.010 --> 00:12:58.440 Their reasons differ: Conservatives argue that the word, coined about 20 years ago as an . Before that, Ms. Nir was a beat reporter covering the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. 9 316 transportationand nearly two million horse owners. Sarah Maslin Nir: Horses went extinct in the American continent about 10,000 years ago and they were reintroduced. 17 183 244 113 298 296 00:55:30.540 --> 00:55:36.960 Sarah Maslin Nir: On on applying and she goes me I wouldn't apply What do you mean it and apply and my dad says, and these are immortal words that have become my mantra he said, let them say no, first, before I tell myself, no. 342 144 106 Sarah Maslin Nir: And he couldn't get a job as a Barbie stuff he was getting rejected from like every wrestler because, like he doesn't have a resume right like you're on the run hiding from the Nazis you can't you don't know how to make a cappuccino. 00:14:49.530 --> 00:14:55.710 "Perfect nails, poisoned workers" and where is the law? Something Rotten in New York City Nail Salons 78 Sarah Maslin Nir: Other animals is your body snatch them but becoming one with the horse is not uniting to have it is to fusing you're being. 82 This program explores Maslin Nirs family background, fascinating career, and identity as the descendant of Holocaust survivors. 117 by Sarah Maslin Nir RELEASE DATE: Aug. 4, 2020. 00:22:57.150 --> 00:23:10.350 Sarah Maslin Nir: So when I was about 16 I was in a very prestigious competition, called the Hampton classic and I, given what i've been telling you about that. Stephanie Butnick: How much of that as a as a child of you know, several you know thinkers in this way, I mean. 195 321 Audio Recording: Unvarnished Podcast - New America That's pretty far from the farm, so to speak, yet she's managed to uphold a competitive career in . 282 269 00:10:35.460 --> 00:10:46.920 102 164 Not the Sarah Nir you were looking for? 00:30:41.850 --> 00:30:50.520 00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:46.140 Stephanie Butnick: Right, Edmond J. Safra Plaza36 Battery PlaceNew York, NY 10280. 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:30.450 Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn't stopped since. Sarah Maslin Nir: awesome well. 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:11.580 44 Sarah Maslin Nir: I really completed these blonde haired and for reddit pony tails girls in the pony ring with me as an area actually areas that were part of this boogeyman that my father had escaped i'm talking about these. 00:35:55.740 --> 00:35:56.220 00:07:50.820 --> 00:07:57.960 00:03:39.210 --> 00:03:45.810 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:49.680 Then he saved her life. Stephanie Butnick: Not just the book but but also your life, so I want to sort of jump right in we saw. 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:08.910 45 00:45:19.080 --> 00:45:26.970 00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:08.160 73 54 Stephanie Butnick: So someone was asking if you heard the story about the Cossacks and how they select their horses, they take the hurt into a dangerously wild river and force them across. Sarah Maslin Nir: Sure, so I really, really wanted a horsey pedigree right like it talks about belonging I I wanted one and my daddy's tell this story about. 284 137 Stephanie Butnick: there's a lot in this book obviously about the horses with in your life and stories that you've reported from India to she can T, which is a word I did not actually know how to pronounce before tonight. 34 00:25:08.220 --> 00:25:17.190 Sarah Maslin Nir: And you know as a journalist, you know this, the sum total of our job description is the word fly that's it so here Francesca told me. (Part 1)," Reason (October 27, 2015), Jim Epstein, "How The New York Times' Flawed Reporting on Nail Salons Closed Opportunities For Undocumented Immigrants (Part 2)," Reason (October 28, 2015), Jim Epstein, "The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. She saddled up for the first time at age 2, and more recently invited a therapy horse to attend her book launch party for . 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:30.180 192 74 65 27 [6][7] She became a trainee reporter in 2011 and worked as a rewrite reporter for late-night news, during which time she camped out overnight at Zuccotti Park with the Occupy Wall Street protesters,[8] and later reported on the dismantling of the camp. 255 123 [1] The story generated both extensive regulatory changes and extensive criticism. 00:35:57.600 --> 00:36:02.460 47 Stephanie Butnick: Excuse me, then the phone rings now i'm like am I in trouble and much like I was like what's what's going to be, but sometimes it's just human contact. Sarah Maslin Nir's "The Flying Horse" | WAMC I met Meeka Brown in a park."I'm one,"she said &fears being a target now. A Look at Sarah Maslin Nir's Book Horse Crazy - Horse Illustrated 2,212 Followers, 3,895 Following, 849 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from HorseCrazy (@horsecrazythebook) 220 Stephanie Butnick: Can you tell us about that sort of electric connection, you have with horses What was it, what is it that captivated you both as a young child and, to this day. Ari Goldstein: she's covered a lot of interesting stories in her career, many of which those who, in the audience probably have read. [32], In November 2015, The Forward named Nir one of the 2015 Forward 50. Stephanie Butnick: we've talked a little bit about this in the video, but you know I know we have some people here who are also horse crazy have some people here who may have like seen a horse in person, a few times. 00:40:58.380 --> 00:41:05.160 116 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:11.610 Sarah Maslin Nir: I was a high school truant on my days off and then I was chasing trends on horseback. Sarah Maslin Nir Getty Images. 107 340 She covered New York City's nightlife for the Times from 2010 until the end of 2011, as the paper's "Nocturnalist" columnist, once attending 25 parties in five days. 163 332 00:19:46.050 --> 00:19:56.430 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:27.270 But before that successful writing career, she was a . In September 2015, Leah Epstein was traveling in Scotland with Sarah Maslin Nir, a writer covering their trip for the Times' travel section.Nir was driving while Epstein was in the back seat . "The Flying Horse" Book 1 of Once Upon A . 00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:45.240 Stephanie Butnick: So you know, for you, as you say, horses, where you belong, and you discovered that at a young age, and so. Sarah Maslin Nir: yeah I think my mom is on this call, so my mom is 17 years older than my dad and she was a. Sarah Maslin Nir: that's not accessible to a mere mortal and in that way horses let you touch something closer to the infinite. 00:19:40.590 --> 00:19:45.420 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.230 Ari Goldstein: Sarah Muslim near has been in New York Times reporter staff reporter, for the last decade. 00:49:56.520 --> 00:50:09.990 Many girls grow up reading a book (for me it was Silver Birch, by Dorothy Lyons) in which the heroine longs for a horse, finds one, tames it and makes a connection that is much more solid and fun than those she has with her schoolmates. Sarah Maslin Nir: But second obviously we can talk about horse racing without talking about drugs and in American horse race and I think there's an average of 22 to 24 horses race horses die a week in America guess how many die in Europe in the same span a week. Sarah Maslin Nir: To get it to excuse me documented and diagnose. 210 Sarah Maslin Nir's "Horse Crazy" is half autobiography, half horse tales that remind readers all equestrians have one commonality: a love of horses. [24][25][26] In November 2015, the NYT public editor concluded that the expos's "findings, and the language used to express them, should have been dialed back in some instances substantially" and recommended that "The Times write further follow-up stories, including some that re-examine its original findings and that take on the criticism from salon owners and others not defensively but with an open mind. 00:22:18.180 --> 00:22:29.130 359 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:21.570 00:26:33.300 --> 00:26:43.950 40 00:11:57.660 --> 00:12:02.610 Sarah Maslin Nir: it's called a phone and, believe it or not, a rings and you can call people you don't have to text people you listen, can you believe it you don't have to tweet at them or email them when you want to work somewhere. Unvarnished: A Conversation with Sarah Maslin Nir Less than a month after it first appeared, Sarah Maslin Nir's two-part report on systemic wage theft, rights violations, and dangerous working conditions in New York City nail salons already looks like a journalistic parable for the ages. 154 205 124 141 00:20:27.540 --> 00:20:35.610 Western New York is still digging out from a punishing holiday blizzard that has taken nearly 30 lives. Stephanie Butnick: What it's like as a child to feel that what your father went through with such a young age, I mean, how do you sort of deal with that weight. 00:04:18.390 --> 00:04:34.020 00:51:46.710 --> 00:51:57.540 171 The Museum of Jewish Heritage is able to fulfill its mission thanks to the generous support of patrons, members, and museum visitors. Sarah Maslin Nir: Thank you for your wonderful questions I love how your mind went and thank you for your deep engagement with the book. Sarah Maslin Nir: And it never happened and I stood up, you know that his hind quarters, I saw them above me and they didn't come down on me and I look at trendy was still lying on the ground upside down and forces. 271 00:48:16.740 --> 00:48:26.490 Stephanie Butnick: riding horses it all seems very genteel on and then at home, you have your father, who is you who to near this. 00:37:41.610 --> 00:37:48.150 00:11:04.290 --> 00:11:18.810 Ari Goldstein: We hope all of you will stay involved in the museum and join us for upcoming programs and events or events calendar is also in the zoom chat and, of course. 00:31:03.870 --> 00:31:13.320 308 330 00:44:45.270 --> 00:44:59.070 58 Sarah Maslin Nir: Is tattered family had been impressed into hard Labor on a German farm by Nazi sympathizer and farmers who believed they were harboring Polish refugees not Jews. [1] The story generated both extensive . Sarah Maslin Nir: For the New York Times you don't write the word I, or we ever so this was a struggle to tell my story that actually initially in a. 00:40:27.930 --> 00:40:34.140 00:27:10.650 --> 00:27:19.620 35 Dr. Maslin's and Dr. Nir's connections to GW extend beyond their friendship with Dr. Reich, Dr. Maslin said. Stephanie Butnick: I love that and to me there's something so much more magnificent about your family's horse connection right when your dad says war horse people he's up being a little facetious but not really right there was something about first of all pulling one over. Sarah Maslin Nir 'Flying Horse' book tour visits New Jersey barns Sarah views her experience writing for the Hatchet, where she authored a column called Vexed in the City, as a "stepping stone" that led . 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:26.790 Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for The New York Times. 00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:31.020 Among the lesser known of these, she was the first celebrity to invite Nocturnalist, The New York Times Metro section's nightlife reporter from 2010 to . 00:37:48.870 --> 00:37:54.240 Sarah Maslin Nir: And he had been impressed into hard Labor on a Polish farm the family believed that he and his mother and sister were Polish refugees not Jewish and so. 224 Sarah Maslin Nir: And i'm 59th street of fifth avenue among the central park carriage horses and the scent of his remembered liberation when he drove to the stables to pick me up from doing chores or riding horses, my father would roll down the window and close his eyes. The article praised Nir's exposure of exploitation and racism within the nail salon industry, but also acknowledged criticisms of her reporting, finding that "At times, though, Nir does seem to overstate the case against salon owners. Sarah Maslin Nir: life and limb, but of identity, so I worked actually in Harlem for a black cowboy and I had never even known, there was a thing as a black cowboy. Horse Crazy - BookPage 00:22:11.370 --> 00:22:17.550 She currently covers breaking news for the paper’s Metro section. Stephanie Butnick: But there's a lot in here, as you say about about that your family and about particular your dad and so. 153 Sarah Maslin Nir: it's very, very formal my dad's or looks up the stairs and he was like that lady just called me Lord. 00:05:39.690 --> 00:05:46.410 299 00:05:33.900 --> 00:05:34.530 Sarah Maslin Nir: The first, winner of the first ever conducted Derby was a black man and the trainer of that horse was and emancipated slaves. Less than a month after it first appeared, Sarah Maslin Nir's two-part report on systemic wage theft, rights violations, and dangerous working conditions in New York City nail salons already looks like a journalistic parable for the ages. 193 260 280 Sarah Maslin Nir: damp masa wrapped and clingfilm that I brought to the horror shows you know, I was compelled to belong, and I would often say that you know dad. 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:56.460 Given the inherent danger of horseback riding (which Nir knows firsthand, having written in Horse Crazy about the sometimes scary injuries she has suffered), what I miss in The Flying Horse is the how-to. 00:25:18.450 --> 00:25:31.080 232 In May of this year, New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir published a deep-dive investigation into exploitation, unfair labor practices and health hazards at New York City nail salons. 00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:37.740 348 00:56:53.910 --> 00:57:03.270 Stephanie Butnick: we'll get to your questions as well, I know you probably have a lot of them, you know I want to get back to the intergenerational trauma if you don't mind. 87 Sarah Maslin Nir: like this and and I realized that I am trendies heard and justin the way, as he wouldn't hurt another member of his herd he had taken pains to avoid me and I was being too too staunch in my desire to not see that and, as she walked away, she said. Stephanie Butnick: And and it's funny because to me it seems like you felt, so much the outsider but he relish shouldn't be right, like who, who mentioned Hitler on the at the Hampton classic he did right so there's really. Sarah Maslin Nir: It was really fascinating you're exactly right he had a practice at 93 park avenue on 79th and park and he also had really the picture from a couple different hasidic. When Sarah finally mounts Trendsetter at 13, what does she notice about him that makes him different from other horses? 324 Sarah Maslin Nir: absorbed the messaging from his family of druggies use needles to well and he was afraid to be seen as a druggie for using his insulin. Sarah Maslin Nir: In Israel, after linked Israel post war and he ended up. The storm raged for days, dumping four feet of snow and packing winds as high as 70 miles per hour, an unusually catastrophic combination. 00:55:22.140 --> 00:55:30.210 00:47:38.370 --> 00:47:41.580 Ive never seen anything like it. 42 51 The death toll in the region rose to 17. 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Sarah Maslin Nir Wikipedia Republished // WIKI 2 8 Sarah Maslin Nir: And I came back to America was like I need a curlicue eared horse, but you can't get them in America they're actually considered a rare commodity by the precious natural resource, but the Indian Government will ban the export I think around 2000 tanner's a little bit before. Sarah Maslin Nir: No that's a great way of thinking and i'll tell you one other story, and maybe i'm jumping ahead to a question to ask, but it feels appropriate. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:12.420 00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:45.330 194 Epstein also argued that the NYT had mistranslated the ads cited in its rebuttal of Bernstein, and that those ads actually validated Bernstein's argument. Stephanie Butnick: wow someone is asking an interesting question, which is what do you make of the fact that there are so many images of Nazis on horseback I did not know that is that a thing. 185 00:19:13.470 --> 00:19:26.760 00:49:31.020 --> 00:49:42.240 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:54.660 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:14.910 00:32:41.340 --> 00:32:47.190 272 203 00:42:07.080 --> 00:42:09.750 Stephanie Butnick: My name is Sarah maslin near and i'm the author of course crazy, this is stellar maslin near and we are going to read a little bit from my upcoming book, I hope you enjoy. Sarah Maslin Nir: So showing is a writing competitively and, yes, I am a competitive amateur equestrian I ride out in New Jersey, I have three horses. Ari Goldstein: ended up being deported to our show to He was killed he entrusted his body work to. Sarah Maslin Nir: But you know identity is what you make it and I want to speak to something that I found a real parallel in other equestrian stories into. 325 Their owners must carry them or use a service elevator. 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:59.910 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:46.590 00:12:02.910 --> 00:12:10.710 57 Sarah Maslin Nir: None they don't have catastrophic breakdown in Europe, because they have much more stringent drugging rules, and we have crazy. 219 00:33:21.450 --> 00:33:31.710 Stephanie Butnick: Where is like the craziest place you found a horse with one of the more memorable stories of finding courses, while you're doing completely separate reporting. Children's book author Sarah Maslin Nir embarks on an unconventional 00:20:21.210 --> 00:20:25.650 28 Anyone can read what you share. Ari Goldstein: You can order the book at the link in the zoom chat it's from sarah's local retailer here in New York so every copy they sell is personally signed. Sarah Maslin Nir has been a staff reporter for The New York Times since August 2011. Ari Goldstein: He painted a really impressive collection of work while he was in terrorising. "It's an unusual horse book in that it's my coming of age story through the lens of the horses . In February 2013, in an article on post-Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts in heavily Irish-American Breezy Point, Queens, Nir wrote about the community's lack of diversity and allegations of prejudice. 00:24:05.580 --> 00:24:06.990 00:16:45.900 --> 00:16:56.670 Sarah Maslin Nir: So here's trendy these are his little legs here is a flower pot and his legs were wrapped around it, and he couldn't scramble them and flip himself over and get up. Reporter, The New York Times. In September and October 2015, hundreds of nail salon owners and workers protested at the NYT offices several times, in response to the story and the ensuing New York State crackdown. Stephanie Butnick: it's so interesting because when you think about it, like the West and the cowboy and the horse really is like. Sarah Maslin Nir, author of the memoir "Horse Crazy," joined us to tell us about her new book, "The Flying Horse." the first in a series of fictional middle-grade novels inspired by real horses . 318 Sarah Maslin Nir: My father, however, knowing nothing about horses, we did all day at the side of the ring his bald head crisping in the sun. 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:56.520 Q. Sarah Maslin Nir: and her name is Francesca Kelly, and she has been since ever since she went to 1985 on a ride. Sarah Maslin Nir: They don't sleep standing up, but they do spend most of their life standing up and it's, certainly when they go down the jump up, so I thought he had died. 52 Before that, Ms. Nir was a beat . Sarah Maslin Nir: Victory laughing horses I wasn't anywhere to be seen, so my father went in, and you know elderly even then he had me quite late in life. Sarah Maslin Nir: And my days on. 216 209 Sarah Maslin Nir: invulnerability or are going it alone kind of nature, and so they come loaded on their backs and in their bodies with a lot more than just being fuzzy was he an adorable. 00:42:57.390 --> 00:43:05.820 245 37 197 80 Sarah Maslin Nir: she's sitting on her floor in her mentioned that she looks up at me he goes you'll come up with tremendous adventure when you engage in tremendous duplicity. [21][22] (A fifth protest was also held a year later after at the "NYT" offices in response to a new rule instituted by Governor Cuomo in response to the article requiring all nail salons in New York State to have ventilation systems, the first such rule in the country.) 53 161 Sarah Maslin Nir: Still Horse Crazy - Sidelines Magazine Sarah Maslin Nir: So I needed one of these when I got back I had. 283 00:13:24.150 --> 00:13:33.030 56 The New York Times published an article on Saturday titled: 'A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite.'. Some Republicans want to ban 'Latinx.' These Latino Democrats agree. Sarah Maslin Nir: There are two lessons in that right what courses meant what living well meant. Stephanie Butnick: This deeply rooted America sense of Americana right like that's what you sort of typifies the American experience and it is interesting, the way in which. 268 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:16.530 00:09:39.930 --> 00:09:52.020 174 Sarah Maslin Nir: yeah he. 00:53:02.040 --> 00:53:08.220 129 62 358 320 In Connecticut, some Democratic lawmakers want to prohibit the use of the gender-neutral term in official government documents. Sarah Maslin Nir is the author of "Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal." She is a staff reporter for The New York Times and was a Finalist for the 2016 . Sarah Maslin Nir: I had no weapons, I had almost no skills, because those horses are barely trained, but I could command an army on top of that horse in central park if I wanted a dog Walker to put their horse on the leash. Metro New York. READ IT "The Flying Horse" by Sarah Maslin Nir. Sarah Maslin Nir: junior riders in the world, and I did my round my course of jumps and I put my horse away and I went to go find some funnel cake right because that's what i'm here for not the competition, the funnel cake and. Sarah Maslin Nir's "Horse Crazy" is not exclusively about horses at all, but a thoughtful memoir that blends rich reportage with intimate stories of combating loneliness and navigating grief. 133 Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian who died on Thursday, was a woman of many firsts. 184 Sarah Maslin Nir's Profile | The New York Times Journalist - Muck Rack 00:05:04.770 --> 00:05:13.530 63 Her style is conversational and often amusing: Right now, Trendy was getting a vibe. 00:52:20.220 --> 00:52:35.850 Stephanie Butnick: is rather elite, and so did you outgrow it, how much of it was sort of like in your head i'm so curious how you look back, particularly on your young self and the insecurities you felt about your your status versus everyone else's. (He will train alongside the famous Lipizzaners, or flying horses, at an equestrian castle in Austria before eventually traveling to America. 00:12:58.860 --> 00:13:10.860 About the author Sarah Maslin Nir is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times reporter and the author of Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal. Sarah Maslin Nir: And I think my father specialty of post traumatic stress disorder in his practice, he was a pioneer of post traumatic stress disorder now it's a watchword, but when he was starting it wasn't the thing. Nail Techs Say NYT 's Nail Salon Expos Made Working - Jezebel 169 14 Sarah Maslin Nir: A real connection to that in both groups or ratio from the equestrian story. Sarah Maslin Nir: Because it's not possible because we've it's unprecedented and historic and we've never been here before, and so I have a very. 235 In July 2015, Unvarnished's claims of widespread "astonishingly low" wages were challenged by former New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein, in the New York Review of Books. Sarah Maslin Nir: She was pioneering black jockey the first female black jockey in 1971 and she did it as a 17 year old girl and she's just such a badass and I wish I met her and I recently wrote about her. 279 Sarah Maslin Nir is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter for The New York Times and the author of both a memoir and a new children's novel. Sarah Maslin Nir: The great horse whisperer I profile in this book Monte Roberts of the movie the horse whisperer is based on him says for system, and one thing. Sarah Maslin Nir: And so, those are just really interesting interplay as well, their connection was over his Hebrew accent, and the fact that you would never think that this woman could understand it. Sarah Maslin Nir: And that's the story, I told at my father's funeral directly to his pine casket and. Sarah Maslin Nir: I don't me I don't need, which is her Hebrew school Hebrew what she thinks means you know, Sir, Sir, it means a little something closer, as we know, to my leads. Stephanie Butnick: How much of that I won't do that send a sense of otherness last I mean Do you still feel that I mean to me there's a difference of like the connection with the horses and then like the wider horse world which, as you described. 225 188 Sarah Maslin Nir: turns out one in four cowboys in the pioneer era era were black and the the West was actually integrated because life was just too damn hard. Her mother, Bonnie Maslin, was a noted psychologist who appeared on TV shows such as "Oprah." Why do I love horses that's because the answer is always been because horses. 00:14:16.890 --> 00:14:24.150 Sarah Maslin Nir has been a staff reporter for The New York Times since August 2011. NYTimes Disses The Flag, Gets Blasted! - The Savage Nation The Flying Horse (Once Upon a Horse #1) - Abrams Books 217 00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:40.530 239 Sarah Maslin Nir: And it was such a startling moment for me and maybe we'll end with this that maybe my father's story had a little bit of truth, maybe we were horse people. New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir's provocatively titled May 12 article, " Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers ," opens at a salon in Ridgewood, Queens. Sarah Maslin Nir: So it was American horse racing, and that is a legacy that they have, thank you are, that they have never reckoned with.