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	Online NewsHour: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide -- September 2, 1997
		PHILIP GOUREVITCH: Well, General Kagame was the leader of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, which was this rebel movement I was describing which had come down and which basically took over the country militarily in the wake of the genocide and became the backbone of the new government.
		PHILIP GOUREVITCH: Well, the way he fits it into it is that he had been the head--he had been seeking to rebel against Mobutu since Mobutu came to power in the early 60's.
		PHILIP GOUREVITCH: Well, by the time that Mobutu was toppled at least 10 countries had either diplomatic, military, economic, some sort of direct assistance to this rebellion, which is a previously unheard of thing.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/july-dec97/rwanda_9-2.html (1399 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Cold Case: Books: Philip Gourevitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Gourevitch's book is unusual in so far as there is no mystery as to the identity of the killer which is known to us from the outset and no doubt about how the killings occurred.
		Gourevitch's focus rather, centres on building profiles of Rosenzweig and Koehler, the key players in the drama, opening up their minds and lives, tapping into the forces that drove these men to be who (and what) they are: Andy Rosenzweig, the dedicated cop; Frank Koehler, the "connected" hoodlum.
		Gourevitch himself makes his sympathies clear with a sometimes sickeningly sycophantic and cliched portrayal of the detective hunting Koehler down, telling us he resembled Bogart, loved his job, was a stickler for facts and couldnt let a case go when he got his teeth into it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Cold-Case-Philip-Gourevitch/dp/0330485059 (1388 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reviews for A Cold Case: Books: Philip Gourevitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Gourevitch's book is unusual in so far as there is no mystery as to the identity of the killer which is known to us from the outset; no doubt about how the killings occurred and no great drama surrounding Koehler's capture.
		Gourevitch's portrayal of Koehler's criminal mentality and Rosenzweig's dedication to upholding the law, fascinating in itself, vividly depicts the criminal underbelly of New York as it existed in the 60's.
		Philip Gourevitch's most recent book still has the theme of crime and justice, which were written in his previous work on the Rwandan genocide.
	www.amazon.ca /Cold-Case-Philip-Gourevitch/dp/customer-reviews/0312420021 (2418 words)

	Philip Gourevitch at AllExperts
		Philip Gourevitch (born 1961) is an author and journalist.
		Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college.
		Gourevitch became interested in Rwanda in 1994 as the Holocaust Memorial Museum was opening and he saw that its founders were determined that genocide should never happen again, while genocide had in fact just happened again and not enough was being written about it.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/ph/philip_gourevitch.htm (390 words)

	PressThink: Philip Gourevitch: Campaign Reporting as Foreign Beat
		Philip Gourevitch is best known for his 1998 book on the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, a work of political reportage but a very different kind than he’s doing now.
		Gourevitch said the President was a master of school yard bullying disguised as amusing banter (to which no one can object without sounding like a prig.) “Which means we laugh at his cruelty,” he said.
		Gourevitch believes that nobody involved in the system wants included in presidential campaigning—at this stage—the kind of engaged and informed debate that would tax the viewer, cause the readers eyes to glaze over, repel the listener, push buttons in the wrong voters, screw up the schedule.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/09/22/gour_talk.html (9530 words)

	Philip Gourevitch
		Award-winning journalist, Philip Gourevitch, will discuss his experience as writer and reporter covering morally charged, and often violent, international political conflicts and their aftermaths.
		Gourevitch was the New York Bureau Chief at The Forward from 1992 to 1993, and Cultural Editor from 1993 to 1995.
		Gourevitch received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1986 and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1992.
	www.ihc.ucsb.edu /events/event_files/past/_fall2002/gourevitch (444 words)

	interview.philip.gourevitch
		Gourevitch has taught two classes at Columbia since graduating, both sections of the nonfiction masterclass, in Spring 2000 and 2002.
		Philip Gourevitch: I graduated from Cornell in ‘86.
		It seems to be a common thread throughout your writing — whether it be Jean-Marie Le Pen and the French Nationalist front, the Rwandan Genocide, the war in the Congo, a student protest at Harvard, the murder of Frankie Koehler.
	www.smallspiralnotebook.com /afrenchinterview.htm (3556 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our ...
		Gourevitch's book is both unsentimental and compassionate, a balance that makes the book leave quite a lasting impression.
		Gourevitch sheds light on how the media affects the tide of world events and how culture and other complicated stimuli may affect an individual's point of view or actions.
		When Gourevitch records personal accounts of victims' families slaughtered by neighbors and friends of several decades, one tends to wonder how little it may take for basic instincts of kill-or-be-killed to override a general sense of social normality.
	www.epinions.com /content_6492294788?linkin_id=8003929 (620 words)

	Q&A Philip Gourevitch - The Boston Globe
		Much was made when founding editor George Plimpton died in 2003 about the end of an era, and surely this after-work fete had nothing on the legendary madcap parties he used to throw at his (and the review's) old home on the Upper East Side.
		The prospect of reviving that latent self is what drew him, in part, to The Paris Review: "The fiction writer and reader in me had been dormant for a while, and I was interested in reconnecting with that," he told me last weekend at his home in Brooklyn.
		GOUREVITCH: One of my complaints with contemporary fiction, and even some journalism, is that it's never as colorful as life; it's timid by comparison to the strangeness of the world.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/01/21/qa_philip_gourevitch (1235 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Philip Gourevitch
		Philip Gourevitch's next effort, A Cold Case, told the true story of an unsolved double murder in New York City.
		Gourevitch, a long-time New Yorker staff writer, has served as editor of the venerable Paris Review for a year and a half now, and this holiday season, in that role, he's delivered a gift for the ages.
		Gourevitch: A few days ago I was in L.A., and I was talking about the book with Stephen Gaghan, the guy who wrote Traffic and wrote and directed Syriana.
	powells.com /authors/gourevitch.html?&PID=12 (5894 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "A Cold Case" by Philip Gourevitch
		What links Gourevitch's new book, "A Cold Case," to his first is that once again he's writing about ghosts who arise from a landscape to tell the stories that might have been lost with their lives.
		What Gourevitch reveals in his examination of Koehler's prison writings and in interviews with him is a sociopathic self-involvement that is both self-lacerating and narcissistic.
		Gourevitch picks up on and understands the silences of a man who neither accepts gratitude easily nor is ever far from mulling over the unresolvable dilemmas of his job.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/07/18/gourevitch/print.html (977 words)

	Amazon.de: A Cold Case: English Books: Philip Gourevitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Philip Gourevitch, who last examined real-life murder in the award-winning We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, is more interested in the personalities of killers and those who pursue them than the drama of murder itself.
		Gourevitch's skillful handling raises intriguing contradictions and questions, not least this one Koehler asks about himself: "Why would people still think good of this asshole?" Now, that's a story.
		Philip Gourevitch, who last examined murder in the award-winning We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, is more interested in the personalities of killers and those who pursue them than the drama of murder itself.
	www.amazon.de /Cold-Case-Philip-Gourevitch/dp/0330485059 (683 words)

	The informer \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Gourevitch was appointed in the spring of 2005 by the board of directors, which includes the novelist Peter Matthiessen, the editor of the New York Review of Books Robert Silvers and the benefactress Drue Heinz.
		Gourevitch, tall and dark and brimming with courtesy and confidence, was born in 1961 and brought up in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of a professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University and a painter.
		Gourevitch writes: "After months during which Rwandans had been left to wonder whether the UN troops knew how to shoot, because they never used their excellent weapons to stop the extermination of civilians, it turned out that the peacekeepers were very good shots...
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,1967730,00.html (1710 words)

	Philip Gourevitch Press Release
		Philip Gourevitch, Staff Writer for the New Yorker, contributing editor at The Forward, and author of "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda," will present a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs entitled, "Writing about Wrongs," at 4:30 p.m.
		Prior to his position at the New Yorker, Gourevitch was the New York bureau chief at The Forward from 1992 to 1993, and served as cultural editor there from 1993 to 1995.
		While he is best known for his pieces on the Rwandan genocide, Gourevitch's writing has covered a broad span of issues spanning domestic politics, the recent presidential election, and criminal investigations.
	www.wws.princeton.edu /events/pressreleases/20041201gourevitch.html (273 words)

	Backgrounder: Philip Gourevitch \| Bullpen
		Gourevitch won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for his first book, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998), a shatteringly powerful account of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which the Hutu majority massacred the minority Tutsi population.
		Gourevitch opens the book with a description of the church site, where the skeletons of the pastors and other Tutsis who sought refuge in the sanctuary are now on display.
		Although he is world renowned for his work on the genocide, Gourevitch’s writing addresses a broad range of subjects, from domestic politics to true crime.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/bullpen/philip_gourevitch/backgrounder (645 words)

	The Paris Review
		Gourevitch said he began reading The Paris Review in the library periodical room as a college freshman, and he said: “One of the many amazing things about The Paris Review is that it has steadily defied the conventional wisdom about literary magazines.
		Gourevitch holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University, and has published a number of short stories in literary quarterlies.
		Gourevitch, a long time board member of the writers’ organization PEN, has written extensively from Africa, Asia, and Europe, and will be interested in publishing more writing from abroad.
	www.theparisreview.org /admin/EditPageView.php?prmID=50 (393 words)

	Philip Gourevitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Since 1997, Gourevitch has been a staff writer for the New Yorker, where he has written several series of articles about the Rwandan genocide.
		In September 1998, Gourevitch published his first book, "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda," in which he explores the Rwandan tragedy in depth.
		Gourevitch is a contributing editor at The Forward, where he was New York Bureau Chief from 1992 to1993, and cultural editor from 1993 to 1995.
	wupa.wustl.edu /asmbly/bio/Gourevitch.html (199 words)

	Amazon.com: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda: Books: Philip ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Gourevitch excoriates the French for supporting the Hutus for essentially racist reasons; the international relief agencies, which he characterizes as largely devoid of moral courage; and the surrounding countries that preyed on the millions of refugees?many fleeing the consequences of their part in the killings.
		Kibeho was closed by the Rwandan military, and Gourevitch presents the incident as emblematic of the messy, confusing, and dangerous aftermath of the genocide.
		Gourevitch recounts their conversation with few of his own interjections, and their recollections of what they had to do to try to help the refugees, like walking over bodies ("I feel very bad about that.
	www.amazon.com /Wish-Inform-Tomorrow-Killed-Families/dp/0312243359 (3758 words)

	CPR: December 2004: Philip Gourevitch
		Philip Gourevitch: Trying to figure what people think they’re gonna get out of talking to a journalist is always a bit of a mystery.
		Gourevitch: There isn’t a sort of overall single subject which I don’t love, except perhaps having covered an American election and very much been glad to have done that, I don’t think I really want to write about American politicians that much.
		Gourevitch: If a public figure says something that I think is stupid, I won’t ever think about really protecting him from it because he’s a public figure and that should be known.
	www.columbiapoliticalreview.com /issues/4/2/gourevitch.html (907 words)

	Lettre Ulysses Award \| Philip Gourevitch, U.S.
		Philip Gourevitch was born in 1961 in Philadelphia / USA.
		In 1996, 1998, and 2001, Gourevitch's texts for the New Yorker were among the finalists at the National Magazine Awards.
		Gourevitch is active in various institutions and committees.
	www.lettre-ulysses-award.org /jury03/gourevitch.html (315 words)

	Philip Gourevitch, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Fall 2002, Baruch College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997, is the Fall 2002 Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence at Baruch College.
		Gourevitch is the Chair of the International Committee of PEN American Center, and a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.
		BusinessWeek Online Contributing Correspondent Karin Pekarchik interviewed Philip Gourevitch about the seminar he will teach at Baruch College in the fall; follow this link for edited excerpts from their conversation.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /wsas/harman/gourevitch.html (263 words)

	CJR Daily: Philip Gourevitch on "Flagging" Talking Points, Conflating Character and Personality, and Petty Press Fusses
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		Gourevitch spoke with Campaign Desk from the Democratic Convention in Boston as part of our continuing series of interviews with reporters, editors and commentators covering the election.
		Philip Gourevitch: Kerry is an interestingly difficult character to cover because to a large extent it seems that people who are close to him are better at describing him or better at telling you about him than he is himself -- at least to make him personally accessible.
	www.cjrdaily.org /the_water_cooler/philip_gourevitch_on_flagging.php (2933 words)

	Conversational Reading: Is Philip Gourevitch Good for TPR?
		Gourevitch did say he wanted to add nonfiction, especially "voice-driven" reporting "you want to read" because of how it's written as opposed to what it's about.
		Gourevitch's name won't roll off the tongue in quite the same way that Hughes did, Galleycat has the links on...
		Gourevitch's name won't roll off the tongue quite as easily as Hughes' did, Galleycat has the links on who this...
	esposito.typepad.com /con_read/2005/03/is_philip_goure.html (835 words)

	bookideas.com: A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch
		Rosenzweig is irritated by the vagueness of the case closing, and decides to sniff around the 27 year-old trail, hoping to find either proof of death, or perhaps Frank Koehler himself, still alive and well.
		An enjoyable read, and my only complaint would center on the length of the telling — Gourevitch has done his best to flesh out the story, spending lots of time inside the heads of the protagonists, but even with this, the book is less than 200 pages in total length.
		The details of the case, and the hunt for Frank Koehler might not slake the thirst of those readers who are used to the fantastical plot twists of modern crime/thriller fiction, but if reality is your thing, you should pick this one up.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=701 (341 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A COLD CASE by Philip Gourevitch
		This is the fascinating scenario behind A COLD CASE, Gourevitch's masterfully written true crime book that alternately reads like a crack police procedural, fugitive-chasing thriller, and incisive social history of the law enforcement lifestyle and a New York lost to time.
		But it's a credit to Gourevitch's skill as a storyteller that his spare, straightforward writing nonetheless creates a rich picture of a relatively simple crime.
		Hopefully, this won't be the last "cold case" that Philip Gourevitch decides to thaw out.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0374125139.asp (473 words)

	City Pages - Philip Gourevitch: <I>A Cold Case </I>
		New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch discovered the case as Koehler went to trial, and it's not hard to imagine what attracted him to the tale.
		Gourevitch begins with the reopening of the investigation, brought about through the diligence of his hero, Andy Rosenzweig, a straight-arrow detective who had become angry at the department's lazy disposal of its files.
		Yet although Gourevitch seems to have had almost total access inside both police station and prison, the dance between Koehler (whose head we barely enter) and Rosenzweig passes so quickly that the book rushes to an end without saying much of anything.
	www.citypages.com /databank/22/1088/article9868.asp (892 words)

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