https://nancyanichols.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/1610117906290-2DH63WJR7WBXZKG4UG6X/Nichols_Nancy_front-2.jpg Home - Nancy A. Nichols is a writer, editor and photographer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/1611767284789-VN64VLE9N5XWMXT3AIOT/Nichols_Nancy_front-1.jpg Home - A bit about my new book: Women and Cars The invention of the automobile a little more than a century ago created a new and movable arena in which women’s struggle for power and autonomy would play out in myriad and often unexpected ways. Cars shaped the way women live, the way women work and date and dress, the way they care for their families and the way they approach the elusive dream of work-life balance. Yet despite it dramatic impact on the lives of women few have stopped the speeding automobile in its tracks to document the impact this technology has had on women. The car may have been “born in a masculine manger,” but beyond this persistent men-and-machine myth lies a different story: women, too, have always loved their cars and the exhilarating freedom of the open road. Blending cultural analysis, biography, literary criticism, and memoir, WOMEN BEHIND THE WHEEL reclaims a neglected history and reveals how the car—and all that surrounds it—has become our most gendered technology. https://nancyanichols.com/writing daily 0.75 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/ff0c6c9a-d674-4b47-b7c2-2c44fc6deb61/Women+Behind+the+Wheel-JM1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/1611772268423-1IKENSTUHGKBLBCNTET7/Lake+effect+cover001.jpg Writing - Lake Effect Two sisters and a town’s toxic legacy On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols’ mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister’s death. While researching Sue’s cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning—by government as well as individuals—that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister’s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families. https://nancyanichols.com/the-rise-of-cupholders-and-the-car-as-living-space daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/1593710213889-KND988S107XZQ3DYIAAJ/Screen+Shot+2020-07-02+at+1.00.33+PM.png The Rise of Cupholders and the Car as Living Space - The Rise of Cupholders and the Car as Living Space - The Atlantic Nancy A. Nichols Cupholders Are Everywhere As people spent more and more time in cars, auto interiors transformed into living spaces, where food and drink became necessities. An Object Lesson. https://nancyanichols.com/photography daily 0.75 2021-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/ed1d79bf-f800-4287-bec6-0bc3ef7da4c3/Screen+Shot+2020-06-26+at+1.06.46+PM.jpeg Photography My most recent photo project, Pretty Sick, deconstructs the experience of illness—removing it from the confines of hospital rooms and taking it to the garden using simple imagery of flowers, leaves and forests. With this work, I seek to make illness visible; moreover, I strive to make it beautiful. This project is about giving voice to the sometimes confusing, often inchoate experience of illness and loss. In my writing and my photography, I crave both narrative coherence and closure. Art, for me, is a meaning making, memory changing machine. Selected images can be seen by scrolling down below or click the button to see the entire project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/e34d99ca-a08a-4190-b0a0-402b65ccfefd/DSCF9648.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/c4aff7b5-906c-40a8-ba62-53ff11fb22ef/DSCF0005.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/40dacba3-5d29-4e87-8a42-37809542c103/DSCF9572.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/06cbf2b4-917e-4990-9d5b-2e2d0eab2f0b/DSCF8923.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/61ab9d00-0d87-4b1f-9d32-73f58af106d8/DSCF7282.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/4b09ac6b-721b-4f66-b03a-694d3d2a037d/DSCF6208.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/19765a2b-6391-48af-b31d-4bdd8bb666f9/DSCF6284.jpg Photography https://nancyanichols.com/editing daily 0.75 2021-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ebda1e20c128360664f52bc/1610119408607-JEJSNJFVLI7QV0KGYUES/20+questions001.jpg Editing The entire history of management ideas can be seen as a series of answers to a few pragmatic queries. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of strategy+business magazine, I worked with Art Kleiner to create a catalog the milestones of management thinking. https://nancyanichols.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-01-10