00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:53.010 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. 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. Her mother, Bonnie Maslin, was a noted psychologist who appeared on TV shows such as "Oprah." Sarah Maslin Nir: Jewish if we were X men, you know that's our that's our superpower my dad has a really fascinating story. 00:15:55.740 --> 00:16:09.330 Follow Sarah Maslin Nir and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Sarah Maslin Nir Author Page. Stephanie Butnick: I like that that embrace of something that we could feel shame about. Stephanie Butnick: More recently, you were really on the front lines of a coven last year, and so I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about. Sarah Maslin Nir: Believe it or not, I had a job as a spa reviewer briefly, I know, tough work if you can get it, and I was reviewing a spot in Rajasthan when I wrote these horses I snuck away to write these horses, with a capital remember. Sarah Maslin Nir: I was a high school truant on my days off and then I was chasing trends on horseback. 283 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. Stephanie Butnick: yeah I mean, I think this idea of belonging really does thread itself so nicely throughout your book throughout the stories and. 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:46.530 37 Two days after a raging blizzard struck, residents remained trapped in cars and in homes without heat. Stephanie Butnick: You on screen you saw your love of horses we're going to get to all of that, I want to sort of start at the beginning. [3] Her brother, David Nir, is (as of 2014) the political director of Daily Kos. 00:15:20.820 --> 00:15:29.550 167 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:52.470 00:15:14.250 --> 00:15:20.100 Stephanie Butnick: But there's a lot in here, as you say about about that your family and about particular your dad and so. Sarah Maslin Nir: That he's synagogue was the first place, that in America that experienced a lockdown and that community. New York Times staff reporter and author Sarah Maslin Nir adores horses. 122 Ari Goldstein: This was awesome thank you both so much, and I will reduce a little surprised not always just we have a. In the decade i've worked for the New York Times i've reported across the country and around the world, and as soon as I file each story I do one thing, before I had home I searched for the horses. 50 Ive never seen anything like it. 225 00:27:10.650 --> 00:27:19.620 00:08:55.080 --> 00:09:11.550 00:14:35.910 --> 00:14:48.960 Sarah Maslin Nir: He took the trope of the greedy Shylock and made him into a subversive war hero right he's a he's a peace activists and my father described himself as very cunning the Germans couldn't kill me could murder me because I was too cunning. Sarah Maslin Nir: Initial iteration book I didn't include it, I wanted to be an almanac of course crazies and Simon and Schuster said no, we think it's your story too so so that was a challenge. 321 Sarah Maslin Nir: My father his mother his sister rode away from the farm to freedom in a briscoe a four wheeled carriage pulled by as my father wrote in his book, the last child to. 00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:31.530 80 When Sarah finally mounts Trendsetter at 13, what does she notice about him that makes him different from other horses? 140 Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. 164 [citation needed], Nir initially freelanced for the Times, contributing to 11 different sections of the paper. 185 Stephanie Butnick: As you're living your happy life that he wanted for you right the life that he worked hard and your mother with her to create for you, because that was the sign of a winning right. 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. Before that, Ms. Nir was a beat reporter covering the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. 79 206 Sarah Maslin Nir: My my mom walks in two worlds, but if I walk in 20 you walk in 30 but it's just so funny that no it no one ever But then when I stopped that my go go look Come on, and they're like oh yeah, of course, you know. 259 Ari Goldstein: she's covered a lot of interesting stories in her career, many of which those who, in the audience probably have read. 00:14:16.890 --> 00:14:24.150 00:14:49.530 --> 00:14:55.710 00:16:57.060 --> 00:17:10.860 00:40:27.930 --> 00:40:34.140 00:24:07.080 --> 00:24:21.480 It was at Spa Jolie, the downtown day spa where she worked in early 2015, that Colon, a former nail salon owner and longtime manicurist, met Sarah Maslin Nir, the New York Times reporter who wrote an expos, published in May, that upended New York's nail industry. 245 Stephanie Butnick: I love that I also livia says, this is a very fascinating presentation in the chat I also want to encourage everyone who is here. 00:56:18.120 --> 00:56:30.600 Sarah Maslin Nir: constantly on the ground in new Rochelle when the National Guard came in and when they instituted this cordoned off area which we now notice silly it was everywhere already and I got a coronavirus very swiftly from being there was really one of the first people to really to get it. Sarah Maslin Nir: But my dad had an interesting connection to horses that was much more real. Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for The New York Times. 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. 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. 00:22:57.150 --> 00:23:10.350 Sarah Maslin Nir, who spent a year investigating the story, talks to Judy Woodruff about how nail salons have gotten away with illegal and unhealthy working conditions. Jane Smiley is the author of many horse novels (most recently Perestroika in Paris), including eight titles for young readers. 130 00:33:51.030 --> 00:33:57.060 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. 00:41:05.610 --> 00:41:12.480 Such a book is often the start of a lifelong infatuation with horses. 00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:05.340 | Cameron Kids | $16.99 | Ages 8 to 12, Galloping Through a Horse Crazy Middle Grade Novel, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/books/review/sarah-maslin-nir-the-flying-horse.html. Bernstein, whose wife owns two nail salons, asserted that such wages were inconsistent with his personal experience, and were not evidenced by ads in the Chinese-language papers cited by the story. Q. 00:03:29.430 --> 00:03:38.580 Before that, Ms. Nir was a beat reporter covering the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. 155 59 Sarah Maslin Nir. 232 90 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:43.740 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. 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. Sarah Maslin Nir: At the last second he talked his body and threw himself to the right into this giant barrel, which has been a flower pot and into this fence, which is how he got stuck. Sarah Maslin Nir: yeah I was the first reporter on the ground in new Rochelle the night that Larry garber's a lawyer became the first documented case of coronavirus in New York, excuse me, the second. Sarah Maslin Nir: A real connection to that in both groups or ratio from the equestrian story. 55 Ari Goldstein: While Sarah and stephanie chat this evening, please feel free to share questions in the zoom Q amp a box before they begin their discussion, we will play a brief. Colon, who previously suffered from sarcoidosis, a disease that her doctor . 00:45:19.080 --> 00:45:26.970 329 I found them underneath the triborough bridge in Harlem and stampeding through central park and yet all this time I never asked myself why. Sarah Maslin Nir: And he had a big watch word stephanie which was mastery he felt everybody was seeking to master themselves to master the world, and when you're from a very close perhaps anachronistic. As an undergraduate, she was the Style Editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator. 00:33:32.250 --> 00:33:39.780 00:18:06.090 --> 00:18:14.970 With his wife, Dr. Maslin, also a psychiatrist, Dr. Nir wrote a number of self-help books on relationships, among them "Loving Men for All the Right Reasons" and "Not Quite Paradise: Making. Stephanie Butnick: For sure I love that I mean, I think that that was something that I was really attuned to while I was reading the story, and so you are the child of Holocaust survivor i'm the grandchild we're not that. Sarah Maslin Nir: That, too, with two willing participants, but I believe it's a conversation with a creature that's been bred for millennia, to have to be that conversationalist with us, but I think we owe them a tremendous ethic of care and just stories like that there are. Sarah Maslin Nir: And my days on. 191 In Sarah Maslin Nirs The Flying Horse, a young equestrian and her trusty steed jump back in time. 70 00:05:35.940 --> 00:05:38.100 Sarah Maslin Nir: I just watched your horse save your life. 00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:25.500 00:35:35.910 --> 00:35:44.460 00:41:13.050 --> 00:41:25.080 21 00:26:55.230 --> 00:27:09.990 Stephanie Butnick: A SIP of this again this like subversive connection to this genteel world right. 312 The writer, and he wants to gaze at them stroke them gallop with them, but the reporter, and he has only one goal to know their stories. Verified. 17 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. He then pulls on a pair of goggles. 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:09.120 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:05.730 00:36:49.530 --> 00:37:01.680 216 Sarah Maslin Nir: And stephanie we both know everything Pearl is better right a pigtail is better than pointy tail curly Fries better than a French right. Maybe the legendary equestrian Beverly Moore, Trendsetters savior in a moment of crisis and Sarahs idol, should have played a larger, more meaningful role. 328 The Evidence Says Otherwise. 161 Sarah Maslin Nir: On the other side of the mountains for to have these structures that existed east of them and black people have. 285 Stephanie Butnick: You think that's new that's really, really fascinating I want to shift a little bit before I completely turn turn turn over to the audience but. 00:13:55.020 --> 00:14:03.150 48 171 Kudos to Sarah Maslin Nir for shedding light on the working conditions faced by nail salon workers in her recent two-part New York Times expos "Perfect Nails . Sarah Maslin Nir: But you know braided together those are the threads that form the tapestry of my life, so thank you for your deep breathe and that great question. You may have seen the name, Sarah Maslin Nir, graced across the pages of the "New York Times" reporting stories from breaking news to exposs. 2016, etc.) 52 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. 00:16:10.680 --> 00:16:27.180 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. 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:08.910 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. 00:09:39.930 --> 00:09:52.020 169 Sarah Maslin Nir: That their connection to the right also I was a mounted parks enforcement officer, you can call me officer near riding in central Park, and let me tell you. 30 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. 00:55:09.720 --> 00:55:15.270 00:28:03.390 --> 00:28:09.390 123 207 315 343 148 Sarah Maslin Nir: yeah he. 251 She saddled up for the first time at age 2, and more recently invited a therapy horse to attend her book launch party for . Sarah Maslin Nir: I love this question and it's great because I was going to try to find a funky segue to this and, just like wing it but i'm going to use this one for it so on the cover of my book. Sarah Maslin Nir: But at one point, the relationship he figured out that his student wasn't refusing insulin because he had a death wish it's because he. (Nir has spoken about her own struggle with a learning disability.) 00:46:49.320 --> 00:47:05.340 247 224 00:19:40.590 --> 00:19:45.420 00:31:53.280 --> 00:32:08.550 00:20:36.270 --> 00:20:46.650 00:26:44.430 --> 00:26:54.510 10 Sarah Maslin Nir: T is part of England right no tea grows on English shores it's an Indian plant, you know it's it's a sub continental plant yet it's so English well horses are the same way. Stephanie Butnick: I love that story, and the first thing that I was thinking when I read it was you must have been so mortified as a. 00:31:13.650 --> 00:31:22.950 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:35.310 00:41:50.700 --> 00:41:51.150 Sarah Maslin Nir: safari ride with her husband across India, she has become obsessed with these horses and she's been to India for 20 years. 00:56:31.140 --> 00:56:41.820 Sarah Maslin Nir: In terms of the electric connection with courses in the book I begin I say when ever anyone asked me why do I love them, I would say, because horses. begins with a life-changing event. 236 00:17:27.750 --> 00:17:32.880 00:52:04.620 --> 00:52:07.770 254 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. Reporter, The New York Times. And i've quizzed Indian soldiers about the indigenous battle horses I charge through quality in Rochester for my entire life i've sought out horses endlessly. 39 86 Stephanie Butnick: start with you just telling us a little bit about both of those worlds, which both seem pretty intense in their own ways and how you navigated between them, you know the privilege, on one hand and what must have felt like this looming sense of trauma at home. 91 Stephanie Butnick: I don't know. 234 When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Current reporter, former columnist for The New York Times. 291 00:17:45.330 --> 00:17:53.820 85 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:19.320 51 Sarah Maslin Nir: quote the only horse left in the stable a two year old mayor that hadn't been trained yet to pull a carriage and therefore it had been left behind by the Russians. [9][10], In May 2015, Nir's "Unvarnished" expos on the working conditions of manicurists in New York City and elsewhere[11] and the health hazards to which they are exposed[12] attracted wide attention, resulting in emergency workplace enforcement actions by New York governor Andrew Cuomo.[13]. 00:21:58.590 --> 00:22:11.100 244 00:48:56.820 --> 00:48:57.510 As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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