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Joshuah Bearman

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Joshuah Bearman has written about CIA missions, jewel thieves, deranged private investigators, aspiring Fabios, bitter rivalry among dueling Santa Clauses, and the metaphysical implications of being the world's greatest Pac Man player. His article for Wired became the movie Argo.
  • Video

Maybe I Actually Do Approve of Gimmicky Art Installed in Boutique Hotels

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 11, 2009
Because this video mural, installed in an elevator in the new Standard in New York, is mesmerising.
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  • Other

The Vastness Is Like a Giant Disco Party

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 11, 2009
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  • Other

My (Hopeful) Addition to the Best of Wikipedia

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 10, 2009
Looks like they don’t have Noël Godin covered. I love a scoop! So I submitted the following:
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  • Other

Why Do Serial Killers Always Keep a Scrapbook…

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 9, 2009
or talk in riddles, or compose weird rhymes about their crimes? This story, by this great writer, is like a real life Silence of the Lambs!
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  • Features & Reviews

Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers, Part 2

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 7, 2009
Find part 1 here. A while back, as a nice gesture, my pal Sean McDonald gave me George Saunders’ (at the time) new book, The Braindead Megaphone. It was in…
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  • Other

Yeti Researcher Reconsidered, By a Smarty Pants English Student

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 7, 2009
I guess I finally rode McSweeney’s coattails into a graduate English department: McSweeney’s 17 forms a key part of the honors thesis of one Flora Feltham, at the University of…
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  • Other

Let There Be Light

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 7, 2009
Did you know that for 800 million years after the Big Bang there was darkness — until the re-ionization of the gas throughout the universe enabled the first rays of…
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  • Features & Reviews

Travel with Wells Tower, or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers s

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 7, 2009
Travel writing is mostly bad. It’s partly the fault of the form; contemporary travel magazines are filled with 10 Best New Hotels/Bars/Spas on Yet Another Tony Exclusive Island or How…
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  • Media

Duets with the Taliban

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 3, 2009
Just getting around to reading David Rohde’s epic, five-part series on his capture by, and escape from, the Taliban, which — along with the nifty interactive add-on feature — is…
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  • Film

The Best Zombie Story of the Year

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • November 2, 2009
More than forty years after George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead made critics question the future of a culture that could produce such a thing, that future is here…
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  • Other

Attention Marcel Dzama:

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • October 23, 2009
Your Halloween Cake is ready!
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  • Music

Another Bold Declaration About The YouTube Mash-Up

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • October 20, 2009
First, it ascended to high art with Kutiman’s assemblage of unrelated music clips into original jams. Now the ante has been officially upped by Darren Solomon, who combined twenty YouTube…
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