Sarah Glidden is the bestselling author of 2016's Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, an inquiry into journalism and the legacy of the Iraq War that offers a portrait of the humanitarian crises in the region. In 2010, she published the acclaimed graphic memoir How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less . Rob Salkowitz (Forbes; University of Washington communications department) leads a wide-ranging conversation with Glidden.