Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York - Ross Perlin

Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer, and translator. He has written for the New York Times , the Guardian , Harper's , and n+1 , and the Endangered Language Alliance has been covered by the New York Times , the New Yorker , BBC, NPR, and many others. He is also the author of Intern Nation: How to Learn Nothing and Earn Little in the Brave New Economy . Perlin was a New Arizona Fellow at New America, and he is a native New Yorker.