Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake: New Books by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan Katz Reviewed by Dr Dennis Rosen Wilentz is unsparing in her praise of Dr. Megan Coffee, the infectious disease physician who came to Port au Prince...
Boston Globe Review “Farewell, Fred Voodoo” by Karen Campbell Describing Amy Wilentz’s take on the international response after the earthquake: “She turns a cynical eye on high-profile types looking mostly for media opportunities, puzzles over Sean Penn’s ongoing generosity, and...
Sean Penn’s Efforts Shine in Haiti’s Slow Quake Recovery: Books By Jeffrey Burke The new book moves through the post-quake ruins and tent camps capturing loss, survival and frustration in shifting pictures held together by Wilentz’s unsparing voice and...
The Nation: Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti by Madison Smartt Bell From the article: Only Dr. Megan Coffee, who came to Haiti in the first wave of post-earthquake medical aid and soon created, out of toothpicks and determination,...
Haiti: Three Years Later A conversation on Haiti from the eyes of Amy Wilentz and Laurent DuBois, with mention of Ti Kay’s work.
New Jersey Star Ledger’s Bob Braun: Modest doctor makes major difference in Haiti What is most extraordinary about Megan Coffee is she does not believe she is extraordinary. The Harvard-educated physician — and Oxford-educated epidemiologist — has spent three...
NPR’s Michel Martin on Rebuilding Haiti: NPR “Rebuilding Haiti” Amy Wilentz: “Well, Megan Coffee, she’s an excellent American doctor, and she came to Port-au-Prince and she ended up in the University Hospital, which is the big hospital in Port-au-Prince....
From the Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography: “Outsiders have tried for decades in Haiti to fix and meddle with and run the show,” Amy Wilentz writes, “with, on the whole, quite poor long-term results, both because...
Jonathan Katz writes of the challenges in Haiti, as the titles says of “How the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster”. He describes how large organizations were not always able to meet the needs of those...