Marc Tracy is a reporter for The New York Times whose beats have included college sports, the newspaper industry, and, presently, culture and the arts. Previously he was a staff writer at Tablet and The New Republic. He has received a National Magazine Award and recognition from the Associated Press Sports Editors. He co-edited Jewish Jocks (2012), a volume of 50 original essays about great Jewish sports figures. W
While at MacDowell , Tracy, worked on his first book, which—for Viking and under the working title Far-Flung—will chronicle the Jewish diaspora, combining profiles of 10 contemporary communities across the world with a history of this 2500-year-old state of being, summing to an argument about the importance and essence of the Jewish diasporic way of life.
