Author Elon Green @elongreen Elon Green is a writer in Port Washington, New York. Ezra Edelman: “The job of an interviewer is to prompt people to go to a place they didn’t even realize they were prepared to go to” Forty-six minutes into Episode 4 of Ezra Edelman’s epic documentary “O.J. Simpson: Made in America,” the director squares off with Barry Scheck, the defense attorney who discredited–or, at the very… June 7, 2016 Annotation Tuesday: the Porn Star and Mike Sager I’ve been thinking about Mike Sager’s story, “The Devil and John Holmes,” for a long time. I first read his chronicle of the famous porn star and the Wonderland murders… November 25, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go” Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle,… October 7, 2014 Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock” [Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a… August 1, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.… May 13, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Roger Angell and the pitcher with a major-league case of the yips Roger Angell has been writing stories about baseball since the year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He’s been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944 and became fiction… March 11, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Sharlet and the iron closet Last week, on the eve of the Sochi Olympics, GQ published "Inside the Iron Closet," a Jeff Sharlet story that revealed disturbing details about what it's like to be gay in… February 12, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Buzz Bissinger and “The Killing Trail” Buzz Bissinger’s “The Killing Trail” — his unremittingly bleak 1995 account of “fag-bashing” in Texas — was his first story for Vanity Fair. (He is still a contributor, and has… January 28, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Lillian Ross and Ernest Hemingway It’s easy, now, to see Lillian Ross’s 1950 New Yorker Profile of Ernest Hemingway for what it is: a masterpiece. But 63 years ago, this wasn’t so obvious. Ross, as… December 17, 2013 Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” Why did it strike a chord with people? Talese has no idea October 8, 2013 1 2 Next
