Deborah Willis Journalist Profile

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Kamala

Nov 29, 2024 | simonandschuster.com | Deborah Willis |Kevin Merida

Celebrate—through stunning photographs—Kamala Harris’s presidential run in one of the most consequential, surprising, and invigorating, campaigns in our nation’s history, one of the most impactful ever of a candidate attempting to become the first woman president of the United States. Kamala is a beautiful tribute to Kamala Harris’s remarkable rise from District Attorney in California to her historic presidential run in 2024.
In 'Girlfriend On Mars' a RomCom Competes with Climate Change

Aug 2, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Jeremy Levine |Deborah Willis

The world is falling apart, but the enormous corporations responsible for climate change are not doing enough about it. If regular people want to organize and pressure these conglomerates, they have few ways to do so. Our economic systems explicitly favor their continued exploitation of natural resources. Communication among the populace occurs on digital platforms owned by, you guessed it, one of those giant corporations or obscenely rich individuals. It feels like there’s no way to win.
Girlfriend on Mars

Jul 15, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Deborah Willis

Expanding on her compelling short story, “Girlfriend on Mars,” Deborah Willis brings the characters into sharper and brighter focus in her debut novel of the same name. It’s the tale of a Canadian couple stuck in their relationship and the ways in which they seek to both preserve and destroy it. They yearn for freedoms and yet shrink their world for years until one of them seizes on a seemingly impossible way out. Amber and Kevin have been together for 14 years.
Girlfriend on Mars

Jul 9, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Deborah Willis

Page 1 of 1 There is 1 reader review for Girlfriend on Mars Write your own review! Gloria M "Girlfriend on Mars" by Deborah Willis is a great choice for your next beach (or vacation) read. Funny and poignant, it tells the story of a reality competition with the two winners receiving a trip to Mars to jump start a new outpost designed to provide a refuge to preserve our species.
Girlfriend on Mars - Serpent's Tail

Jul 2, 2023 | serpentstail.com | Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis What if the person you loved was on another planet? 'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in space' Bobby PalmerKevin is a thirtysomething homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Amber, as they grow weed in their basement in Vancouver.
How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

Jun 15, 2023 | lithub.com | Deborah Willis

In 1914, astronomer and naturalist William Pickering peered at Mars from a secluded observatory and devised a theory: the planet was a watery, living world. He believed Mars was covered in a network of canals and marshes, continually moistened by storms and squalls. As Sarah Stewart Johnson writes in The Sirens of Mars: as “terrestrial catastrophe loomed in the form of the impending World War, Pickering seemed to take refuge” in his Martian dream.
What Does It Even Mean to Be Real?

Jun 12, 2023 | newspub.live | Deborah Willis |W.w. Norton

Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, had gone unnoticed in Venice last month. With luck, he thought over breakfast near the Palazzo Ducale, his confidential talks in Italy with Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s more than $700 billion sovereign wealth fund, might stay secret.
FULLY BOOKED

Jun 5, 2023 | fact-magazine.com | Deborah Willis |Ruth Ware

SATIRE/HUMOROUS FICTIONGirlfriend On MarsBy Deborah WillisA novel very much of our age, this debut offering provides futuristic fun with a satirical look at humanity’s pursuit of fame in the face of environmental crisis, and we love the premise. Amber Kivinen leaves her humdrum boyfriend of 14 years, Kevin, and joins a reality show where, among an assortment of science nerds, would-be influencers and others, she is competing for the chance to join the first human mission to Mars.
Jamel Shabazz works presented in ALBUMS reflecting portraits of NY's communities from 1970s to '90s

Feb 24, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Deborah Willis

”This book—awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize—presents, for the first time, Shabazz’s work from the 1970s to ’90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that function as portable portfolios.Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jamel Shabazz picked up his first camera at the age of 15 and began documenting his communities, inspired by photographers such as Leonard Freed, James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks.He...