86 In Sarah Maslin Nirs The Flying Horse, a young equestrian and her trusty steed jump back in time. 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. 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:52.470 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. Sarah Maslin Nir at "Living City, Living Wage" discussion in 2015. 205 The conversations are inspired by the Museum's ongoing . 76 00:32:41.340 --> 00:32:47.190 Sarah Maslin Nir: In the pursuit of the book, there is a dubious and revolting practice of doing that, so the fact that my dad even knew that was a thing, and it does happen it's called spiriting a horse up and it's in certain very despicable disciplines in the United States still and elsewhere. Sarah Maslin Nir: Endless around the horse world both past and present, have a tremendous brutality exacted on these animals and it's easy to do it is easy to be selfish with a horse, because they are here at our at our will and at our leisure. 00:45:11.970 --> 00:45:18.330 00:56:18.120 --> 00:56:30.600 Sarah views her experience writing for the Hatchet, where she authored a column called Vexed in the City, as a "stepping stone" that led . Sarah Maslin Nir spent 13 months investigating workplace conditions in New York City nail salons. Sarah lives in New York City and in the novel is 10 years old when Trendsetter is born on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Sarah Maslin Nir: plantations and we know that plantations and the tobacco industry and cotton was built on slave Labor you can't escape that right. Another Berkshires-based author, Donaldson Brown, begins her novel, "Because I Loved You," with a young girl racing off on the back of her beloved steed in an effort to keep the horse that her mother has sold. 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. [3] Her brother, David Nir, is (as of 2014) the political director of Daily Kos. Sarah Maslin Nir: He runs into a girl he knows, and he says, where she says, where you're coming from and he says, you know another job rejections, where you coming from she says the Bank, you know they're giving loans to go to Medical School in Vienna. Search. 278 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:43.740 [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. Sarah Maslin Nir: And in the early days American horse racing people ran the horses, they owned with the humans, they owned on their backs, and that is how it was done, they purchase leads from West Africa and save people from West Africa for their horsemanship skills. 00:11:33.450 --> 00:11:50.160 00:32:30.990 --> 00:32:41.310 70 Sarah Maslin Nir (born March 23, 1983) is an American journalist, best known for her New York Times report on the working conditions of nail salon workers, for which she was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Sarah Maslin Nir: Thank you so much. 195 Sarah Maslin Nir: And that became how they met, but for my mother being adopted. 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. He torqued his whole body as he came crashing down and flung himself in the opposite direction., This validated what Nir had felt about the horse from the moment she laid eyes on him: Trendsetter elevated a passion in me for the sport to an echelon I had only ever aspired to reach., The Flying Horse begins with Trendsetters birth in the Netherlands, as the novels narrator imagines what its like to come into the world as a foal: He lay flopped like a half-pitched tent, bum in the air, and the scrap of a tail protruding from his rear, flip-flipping. From here we get to know the foals personality and follow him as he grows up. 283 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:22.560 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:09.120 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:17.670 00:54:24.750 --> 00:54:34.890 54 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. 22 238 Sarah Maslin Nir. Before that, Ms. Nir was a beat reporter covering the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. 192 Sarah Maslin Nir: We were all happy, except for the horse, who was having a hard time adjusting to her first job and so throughout his life, the scent, of course, is considered freedom. 248 Sarah Maslin Nir: When after the war he had really a fifth grade education, because he spent the whole time hiding in plain sight with various jobs, he got a high school equivalency degree. Metro New York. Illustrated by Laylie Frazier. Then a 'sovereign citizen' changed the locks," by The New York Times' Sarah Maslin Nir: "The official-looking letters started arriving soon after Shanetta Little bought the cute Tudor . 353 Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population more than 200 million people were under winter warnings or advisories at one point on Friday. 290 00:25:08.220 --> 00:25:17.190 Stephanie Butnick: Right, Edmond J. Safra Plaza36 Battery PlaceNew York, NY 10280. Stephanie Butnick: In a funny way the horse thing wasn't entirely foreign to him, and there was a really great passage I was hoping that you might read just give us a sense, first of all about the book sounds like but also have you know your particular family story. 00:55:09.720 --> 00:55:15.270 Sarah Maslin Nir: Of of humans, which is that we are there, safe place to be, and in that way courses or democratic they only demand that of people and everybody can be that for them. Stephanie Butnick: You grew up between what seems like two realities you lived on the upper East side you ended up you attended, you know upper crust all girls private school there's the House in the hamptons the horse. Her brother, David Nir, is (as of 2014) the political director of Daily Kos. 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:30.240 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:05.730 Sarah Maslin Nir: A real connection to that in both groups or ratio from the equestrian story. 330 Sarah Maslin Nir: yeah so I I write about that self consciousness, because even as I sat down to write this first of all, as a reporter. 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:54.660 00:18:06.090 --> 00:18:14.970 [28] Shortly afterward, Reason and Crain's New York Business published stories refuting those allegations. 78 "The Flying Horse" Book 1 of Once Upon A . 90 281 307 Sarah Maslin Nir: Take a look at her, she looks like the you know Las Vegas last but they don't see it, because they feel her jewishness right the gestalt and so you know we all put on different identities and. Full Episode Wednesday, Sep 21 314 254 (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. Ari Goldstein: database to while I was listening to you guys and kind of couple interesting objects i'm just going to throw up on the screen in advance. 00:56:43.170 --> 00:56:44.250 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. Ari Goldstein: Including a sweeping investigations in New York city's nail salon industry, for which she was a 2016 pulitzer prize finalist. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Sarah Maslin Nir: To get it to excuse me documented and diagnose. 57 Sarah Maslin Nir: thing I should really say is that he didn't treat them differently, and I mean treat capital T as a clinician. 325 00:45:27.330 --> 00:45:36.120 313 Sarah Maslin Nir: To read. 132 361 [1] The story generated both extensive . Sarah Maslin Nir: So he's coming back from getting rejected from like yet another parties to job, this is like 1948 ish and. 00:36:49.530 --> 00:37:01.680 294 Sarah Maslin Nir: That, yes, we had horses in the family, Sarah we had a subversive like World War one era polak in the family who would gather up. 00:55:38.310 --> 00:55:47.190 146 Sarah Maslin Nir: and send a runner out to where the cavalry was stationed and he was anti war so. 316 289 296 299 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: And that is a really something I wish i'd included in the book, I only learned it later and one of the lenses, to which I tell that story and the times recently was cheryl white. 00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:46.140 341 354 97 Under Review. Sarah Maslin Nir: You know, he said that's what you are, you know and, and so I was loaded with intergenerational trauma that it doesn't really matter what reality is it's it's a perception issue. 00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:43.560 00:42:46.830 --> 00:42:56.280 117 209 34 00:55:03.390 --> 00:55:08.430 216 Ari Goldstein: But this is a beautiful watercolor by this young check Jewish boy Peter lowenstein who was deported to terrorising was 22 and. 144 12 Stephanie Butnick: that's that's that's fascinating um. 00:08:09.450 --> 00:08:14.760 225 00:12:22.740 --> 00:12:37.290 171 Sarah Maslin Nir: courses that were abandoned by the Polish cavalry and he would collect them from the woods when they were broken up and discarded and then he would bring it back to his farm. 274 Sarah's father, Dr. Yehuda Nir, was a Holocaust survivor who had escaped Nazi-occupied Poland as a child; he went on to become a prominent child psychiatrist specializing in post-traumatic stress. Sarah Maslin Nir: That are so explosive that are so volatile that send people in the streets when they read them, you have to get it really right, and you have to be. 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. The daughter of psychiatrist Yehuda Nir and psychologist Bonnie Maslin, Nir was born and grew up in Manhattan, attending Brearley School. Their daughter, Sarah Maslin Nir, studied at GW before transferring to Columbia University. Sarah Maslin Nir: And it's a tautology that's an absolutely satisfying answer for a horse lover there's something about how they move how they look how they feel and yet. He has used this safety protocol for the past 14 months. Sarah Maslin Nir: isn't that interesting I wasn't there I didn't belong and and even even and that's the fiction of identity right that identity is a construct here, I was not only was I there, I was the best of the best and I disappeared, because I didn't believe it. 182 Join Facebook to connect with Sarah Maslin Nir and others you may know. 223 We have estimated Sarah Maslin Nir's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. 118 Sarah Maslin Nir: and afterwards been checked up by an emt and I had actually ended up crashing vertebrae but I was still able to walk but just from the back to the fall and a woman came up to me and she said. Stephanie Butnick: I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about that, and whether he thought about these patients as being different are facing different issues and how you sort of solve those two worlds in your own your own upbringing oh. 204 319 00:50:58.860 --> 00:51:01.350 00:28:17.490 --> 00:28:26.400 348 00:37:54.630 --> 00:38:05.250 00:37:09.270 --> 00:37:09.630 Sarah Maslin Nir: And she wanted to impress them, so my 26 year old mom with her wasteland blonde hair runs after my you know bald 40 year old soon what future dad yelling. 275 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:19.560 Sarah Maslin Nir: you're allowed to define it yourself and Ralph lauren defined was culture Ralph elections, and so I will just the correct you on on that that small note. Maslin Nirs latest project is Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal, a new book that traces her lifelong obsession with horses and provides a window into the lesser-known corners of the equestrian world. 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:22.200 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 . People Like Sarah Nir . Stephanie Butnick: And already, thank you for having us both here tonight, and to the Museum of Jewish heritage, always a pleasure to be part of your programming. 119 226 315 Sarah Maslin Nir: Viewed throughout history and art is extensions of the phallus and the way that you dominate people it is for aeons been on horseback so it makes a lot of sense. 181 00:17:55.320 --> 00:18:05.160 READ IT "The Flying Horse" by Sarah Maslin Nir. 258 00:33:21.450 --> 00:33:31.710 Sarah Maslin Nir: They are in the dedication of the book in the front page of it bravo trendsetter excuse me, I just sold bro but to a friend stellar trendsetter and sell core and I compete it for the real cognoscenti in the amateur owner hunters. 00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:05.340 One manicurist has had a. 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. 00:09:12.870 --> 00:09:28.350 00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:25.500 00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:46.560 Sarah Maslin Nir: There was a two year old in the field and a four year old and I said Francesca you know Bam is decades old how, how do you have these horses. Maybe the legendary equestrian Beverly Moore, Trendsetters savior in a moment of crisis and Sarahs idol, should have played a larger, more meaningful role. 20 21 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. 00:31:03.870 --> 00:31:13.320 215 277 62 5 verisk.com; gmail.com; thedailybeast.com; jta.org; forward.com; 4 516-284-XXXX; 516-239-XXXX; 516-239-XXXX; 516359XXXX; Andy Wright SVP, Head of Global Enterprise . Corey Kilgannon,Lola Fadulu,Hurubie Meko. 00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:49.110 She covered the escape of two inmates from the Clinton Correctional Facility; camped out overnight at Zuccotti Park with Occupy Wall Street protesters; attended 25 parties over five days; and conducted a sweeping investigation into New York Citys nail salon industry, for which she was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:46.530 00:14:16.890 --> 00:14:24.150