Whenever I'm about to be interviewed for my new book, Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays, I'll put on my reporter hat in preparation and think about what questions I would ask myself. That way, I have a better than even...

I just got off the phone from someone calling herself a friend of one of the major characters in my new book, Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays. She asked me how this person could get a box of books from...

In my new book, Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays, I wrote a somewhat self-conscious "Author's Note" that pretty much said, "As far as I know, everything in this book might be true." Normally, I would have been a lot more...

I've always figured it's a great, but infrequent, bonus if what I write actually benefits a few readers in some substantial way (well, other than being informative, which I hope everything I write is). One of my first experiences with that idealistic goal was as a television reporter in Anchorage,...