Joshuah Bearman
Joshuah Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly. He writes for Rolling Stone, Harper's, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Huffington Post and contributes to This American Life. Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, The King of Kong. He was one half of Team USA in Walleyball, a short film by Brent Hoff about a pick up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico Border. He was the editor-in-chief of Yeti Researcher, a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by McSweeney's. Bearman is a board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring center in Los Angeles. He lives in Hollywood, California, and is currently working on a book for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 Wired article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted into the film Argo, with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring. The film is currently in production.[8]
Works
Articles
- "Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the World's Most Ingenius Thief," Wired, March 22, 2010
- "The Legend of Master Legend," Rolling Stone, December 25, 2008
- "Mr. Romance," The Panorama, McSweeney's issue 33, 2010
- "Can D.I.Y. Replace The First Person Shooter? The New York Times Magazine, November 15, 2009
- "My Half-Baked Futures Bubble The New York Times Week in Review, December 9, 2009
- "The Perfect Game: Five Years With the Master of Pac-Man," Harper's, July 2008
- "Escape from Tehran: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Iran," Wired, May 2007
- "The Gospel According to Rio: Heaven's Gate, the Sequel," LA Weekly, March 27, 2007
- "Stuffu Happens: Why is Japan so Crazy/Awesome?" Culture + Travel, March 2008
- "Chest of Lies, or, The Door is the Party: Identity theft and the search for meaning at Sundance," LA Weekly, February 2, 2007
- "Xianjiang's Swarm of Giant Gerbils, an Investigation" McSweeney's, issue 14
- "Grass Roots Democracy Means Getting Some Manure on Your Boots: An Epic Tale of the 2004 Iowa Caucuses" The Believer, April 2004
- "The Uninhabited United States Army: Today’s Unmanned Desert Race-Bots Are Tomorrow’s War Machines" The Believer, May 2004
- "The Uninhabited United States Air Force: The Fever Dream of Military Planning" The Believer, August 2003
This American Life
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