The 2025 Jackson Hole Book Festival proudly announces its kick-off event at the Center for the Arts, with prominent, national journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. The New Yorker’s Staff Writer Susan Glasser and New York Times’ White House Correspondent Peter Baker have been covering Washington and global stories for decades.
Prior to her position with the New Yorker, Glasser was the founding editor of Politico Magazine and editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine. She worked for a decade at the Washington Post where she covered national and international news, including a four-year stint as the Post’s Moscow co-bureau chief. Baker, who spent two decades at the Washington Post before moving to The New York Times, is covering his sixth presidency. At the Post he was Moscow co-bureau chief with Glasser. Both Glasser and Baker covered the early months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition, Glasser and Baker are well known for co-authoring The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, and more recently, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017- 2021.
Former Washington Post associate editor and columnist Ruth Marcus – who has covered Washington, politics, and the law for the past forty
years (author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover) – will lead a conversation with the two journalists, exploring current affairs nationally and across the world.
This literary event will benefit the upcoming Jackson Hole Book Festival: Conversation for the Community – September 27, 2025 – Free for All.