Hollywood Issue 2017
Vanity Fair
Warren Beatty Tells Pauline Kael, You Ought to Be in Pictures
October 2015
VanityFair.com
Eve Babitz’s Famous Nude Chess Match Against Marcel Duchamp, the Full Story
Because the only thing more fun than going to a party is talking about the party afterward.
February 2015
Vanity Fair
Profile of Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator, Larry David. Prettay, prettay, prettay good.
October 2014
ELLE
Inside the Dangerous Mind of Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl says hello. Well, the writer of Gone Girl says hello. A profile of Gillian Flynn.
September 2014
Harper's Magazine
The Tale of the Tape: The Miracle of Straight Life
Art Pepper, jazz man, junkie, heartthrob. Laurie Pepper, wife of Art. The two give birth to Art’s memoir, Straight Life. Cootchy-cootchy-coo-skeetle-at-de-op-de-day.
June 2014
Vanity Fair
O.J. Simpson and the Birth of Reality TV
O.J. didn’t just (likely, probably, oh, come on, he did it) kill Nicole and Ron. He killed popular culture, too.
May 2014
Slate
The Scumbag’s Scumbag: Al Goldstein
Al Goldstein, founder and publisher of Screw magazine, goes to the great big orgy in the sky. I cover the memorial service at—where else?—the Museum of Sex.
March / April 2014
The Believer
Bret Easton Ellis and the making of The Canyons.
March 2014
Vanity Fair
The wild times and wilder life of writer and party girl, Eve Babitz.
March 2014
Vanity Fair
The perfect wave, the perfect artist, the perfect image. John Van Hamersveld and the poster for The Endless Summer.
March 2012
The Believer
Out of the Blue: Deep Throat, Last Tango in Paris, and the Art of Cultural Penetration
October 2011
The New York Observer
Kiss Kiss, Gang Bang: Pauline Kael, Deep Throat and The New Yorker
The New Yorker cock blocks movie critic, Pauline Kael. Says no way to a review of Deep Throat.
February 2011
The New York Observer
Al Goldstein: The Pornographer in Winter
A profile of everybody’s favorite dirtbag, Al Goldstein, founder and publisher of Screw magazine.