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Swing Town
Over at New York Magazine, Mark Jacobson recalls the famous Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich wife-swapping trade.
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Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet
“Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet,” by Mark Jacobson. New York Magazine, 1975: A driver I know named David is worried. David and I used to moan cab stories to each other when I was on the night line....
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The Return of Superfly
Sticking with the good stuff, here’s Mark Jacobson’s New York story that was the basis for the movie, American Gangster: Twenty-five years after the end of his uptown rule, Frank Lucas, now 69, has...
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The Bobster
Here’s Mark Jacobson’s 2001 Rolling Stone feature on the Cult of Bob: Someday, no doubt, when the keepers of the tower officially allow that Bob was one of the two or three greatest American artists...
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Million Dollar Movie
This here is intriguing. Mark Jacobson’s 1999 article for New York magazine on Stanley Kubrick and Joe D: One can only suppose how Stanley Kubrick might have filmed the life story of Joe DiMaggio. How...
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Million Dollar Movie
Mark Jacobson on the new Kubrick documentary: After Strangelove, the canon was filled in. There was The Killing, from 1956, in which Kubrick reconfigured time to stage a racetrack heist and had Vince...
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BGS: The Passion of Dr. J
A treat from Mark Jacobson. Originally published in Esquire in 1984 and anthologized in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, a stellar collection of Jacobson’s non-fiction. Reprinted here with the...
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Far From Satisfied
Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men’s Journal. Rollins played with the great musical innovators of the mid-century–Parker, Monk, Dizzy, Miles. When...
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BGS: The Hippest Guy in the Room
Not everyone gets Humphrey Bogart to play them in the movies. Harold Conrad did. In Mark Jacobson’s pitch-perfect story of the ultimate been-everywhere-done-everything knock-around guy, Conrad and a...
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BGS: Richard Pryor is the Blackest Comic of them All
If you dig Richard Pryor, go get Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor and David and Joe Henry’s Furious Cool. Listen to Pryor’s best albums–“Craps”, “That Nigger’s Crazy”, “Is It Something I Said?” and...
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BGS: Enough With The Resurrections, Already!
Here’s a treat for you. From our pal Mark Jacobson comes a 1990 Esquire profile on Jackie Mason. Originally titled “Enough with the Resurrections, Already!” the story appears here with the author’s...
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