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Thurs. Aug 18th: NextTribe Interview with Marie Brenner, author of The Desperate Hours

For years, Marie Brenner has been writing riveting articles in publications like Vanity Fair. Her new book, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines, may be her most important work yet.

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Facing Death During the Pandemic

Marie Brenner’s “The Desperate Hours” looks at how health care workers dealt with the perils of Covid

CBS NEWS interview

Hospital workers taught "masterclass in humanity" during COVID-19 pandemic in New York City

Marie Brenner's new book, "The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines," offers an inside look at the challenges health care workers faced when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Brenner spoke with CBS News' Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers about the real stories and people that inspired her writing.

Kirkus book review

A potent cautionary tale for pandemic preparedness.

An urgent account of how Covid-19 created nearly insurmountable challenges to a famed hospital system.

AXIOS review

Sneak peek: Inside one New York hospital's fight against COVID-19

In "The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines" (out tomorrow), Brenner draws on 200+ interviews for a gripping account of NewYork-Presbyterian's heroics — with too little federal help — as COVID smothered the city.

Hell & High Water with John Heilemann

Marie Brenner

John Heilemann talks with Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair writer-at-larger and author of the new book, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines.

‘Telling the Truth’ About Covid

The prizewinning journalist and author Marie Brenner has written of war zones before, but never one this close to home and with so many civilian victims: 41,677 dead across New York City, more than a million nationwide, and nearly 10 times that number impacted to greater and lesser degrees.

The Thrive Questionnaire

Marie Brenner On the Book From Her Childhood That Shaped Her Perspective

The author and journalist opens up about her morning routine, her go-to tip for dealing with stress, and the classic children's book that gave her permission to rebel.

Surviving COVID: A New Book Documents a Hospital’s Struggle

In "The Desperate Hours," Marie Brenner offers a soulful, movie-worthy history of the pandemic.