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Jason Arthur Leopold is an American senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. He was previously an investigative reporter for Al Jazeera America and Vice News.
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan - 2022-09-20
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Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life, created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O’Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’...
Jason Leopold
2022-12-21T13:46:26.000Z
This book by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan, really a conversation between both of them, is so unbelievably good. Nick Cave is an absolute treasure.      source
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - 2018-08-14
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“A classic of war reporting...The author’s stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not.” —The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers’s unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes of the fighters who have waged America’s longest wars.More than 2...
Jason Leopold
2021-03-10T06:01:31.000Z
@cjchivers Such an incredibly powerful book and beautifully written.      source
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Fargo Rock City
A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman - 2002-05-01 (first published in 2001)
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Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilarious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older br...
Jason Leopold
2020-10-18T16:00:40.000Z
@corinhoggard That was a great book      source
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Hellfire
The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
Nick Tosches - 1998-04-22 (first published in 1982)
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The life of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most dramatic and tormented in rock 'n' roll history. Hellfire is a wild, riveting, and beautifully written biography that received universal acclaim on its original publication and remains one of the most remarkable biographies ever written.Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater ...
Jason Leopold
2019-10-21T17:52:12.000Z
#RIP to one of the BEST writers on music: Nick Tosches. His book on Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, is one of the greatest biographies ever written.      source