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North Dakota’s Gold Rush: A Memoir About the Fracking Boom A new book chronicles the stories of sometimes broken, often desperate men who ventured to the northern plains in service of an industry that exemplifies late-stage capitalism. Clay S. Jenkinson, Editor-at-Large   |   April 4, 2021 Michael Patrick F. Smith would not seem to fit the profile of an oil field worker. He’s an actor, a musician and a playwright who sublet his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment to head out west to Williston, N.D., during the height of the Bakken Oil Boom in 2013. As he admi...

The Promises and Pitfalls of a Modern-Day Boomtown A decade ago, Williston, N.D., became a magnet for desperate men, thanks to oil in the Bakken Formation. In an interview, author Michael Smith talks about life in an oil patch and the human cost of fueling the nation. Clay S. Jenkinson, Editor-at-Large   |   April 2, 2021   |  Features You can listen to the companion audio version of this and other essays in the series using the player below or on  . When the price of a barrel of oil peaked at $145 amid the 2008 economic meltdown, thousa...

Pandemic Challenged BNSF in 2020; Railroad ‘In Good Hands’ for 2021 Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor In Berkshire Hathaway’s 2020 annual report, Board Chairman Warren Buffet credited BNSF CEO Carl Ice and “his number two,” Katie Farmer, for their “extraordinary job in controlling expenses while navigating a significant downturn in business.” Despite a 7% decline in volume, BNSF’s profit margin increased by 2.9 percentage points in 2020, Warren Buffet, Chairman of the Board for parent company Berkshire Hathaway, told...

By Michael Patrick F. Smith Viking: 464 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. What are you doing right now? Have you taken any risks lately? When’s the last time you were truly scared? In the summer of 2012, Michael Patrick F. Smith read an article in Men’s Journal about the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. At the time, he was working a white-collar job in lower Manhattan, living in Brooklyn, engaging in the drug- and alcohol-soaked bacchanal of “postadolescent” life available to ...

28:51 Sam Anderson is an award-winning staff writer for The New York Times Magazine - formerly a book critic for the same. He lives in Beacon, New York. His first book, “Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis” was released this summer. “Boom Town” hops around the fascinating story of Oklahoma’s capital city, which is like zooming in on a sped up story of America with everything that entails: dream attainment and major success for some; land ownership; enormous civic p...