Nick Paumgarten
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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Getting Serious with Interpol
The rockers Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler meet up at a by-the-piece sushi joint between arena gigs to talk about adult stuff (Banks’s impending engagement) over adult food (nodoguro and o-toro). → Read More
John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah”
“An editor is like a shrink,” was one of many Bennetisms. He was that, and a lot more. → Read More
The Stanley Cup Comes to Visit, Accompanied by a Handler in White Gloves
Having survived trips to strip clubs and to Afghanistan, the legendary hockey trophy submits to fondling and copy-editing by the New Yorker staff, Nick Paumgarten and Sarah Larson write. → Read More
Spoon Gets Sidelined in New York
Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, from the Texas band Spoon, shot some pool to kill time ahead of a gig on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” before COVID rearranged their plans. → Read More
Letter From Daytona Beach News, Opinion, and Analysis—
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Take Picture Part Ii News, Opinion, and Analysis—
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She Shot John Belushi, and Other Bad Boys
Marcia Resnick photographed the Blank Generation, punks, poets, and provocateurs, including Johnny Thunders, Gil Scott-Heron, Steve Rubell, and Roy Cohn. Finally, she’s getting a retrospective. → Read More
Mikaela Shiffrin’s Stunning Slalom Collapse
Nick Paumgarten on the Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s unforced error during the slalom event at Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics, and her collapse that followed. → Read More
“Torn” Review: Losing a Father to the Mountains
Nick Paumgarten writes about “Torn,” a film by Max Lowe that centers on his mountaineering father’s death in an avalanche in Tibet; Conrad Anker, the man who survived the accident and married his mother; and his family’s process of healing after the tragedy. → Read More
Monsters Of Rock Dept News, Opinion, and Analysis—
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J Mascis Puts Out Energy
The Dinosaur Jr. front man cycles around Central Park—he’s nearing five thousand miles for the year—and talks about Bob Dylan, stage dives, and his taxonomy of hugs. → Read More
Parquet Courts on the Dance Floor
A night out in Brooklyn with the psychedelic-punk band’s frontmen, Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, just before the release of their pandemic opus “Sympathy for Life,” which, naturally, was recorded before the pandemic. → Read More
When the Man in Black Met the Guys in Tie-Dye
Owsley Stanley, the legendary Grateful Dead soundman and LSD chemist, left behind thirteen hundred reels of live recordings from his sonic laboratory, including a newly released recording of the night Johnny Cash came to town. → Read More
Harvard’s Atheist-Chaplain Controversy
The selection of Greg Epstein, a humanist rabbi, as the president of Harvard’s chaplains led to a small uproar among the school’s other religious leaders. Will it inspire a come-to-Jesus moment of the secular variety? → Read More
Cuomo on the Brink of Impeachment
In the new report on sexual-harassment allegations against him, the Governor comes off as a combination of Howard Stern, Colonel Kurtz, and Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone.” → Read More
The Sights The Smells News, Opinion, and Analysis—
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Smoke-Orange Sky? It’s Always Sunny in Citrovia
Seeking shelter from the mega-fires and superstorms inside the psychedelic, Teletubby-evoking plastic-lemon-grove installation in midtown, contrived to disguise a giant construction shed. → Read More
The Great New York City Roller-Skating Boom
In 1980, the whole city seemed to be on skates. I’m not sure why. → Read More
Helping Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson Find Their Groove
How Randall Poster and Josh Deutsch, childhood music-geek pals in Riverdale, curate the sounds for movies, ads, podcasts, and streamers like “One Night in Miami” and “The Queen’s Gambit.” → Read More
Chronicling Rock and Roll’s Neglected Stories
Miriam Linna, who recently published a five-pound book on the history of Fortune Records, keeps her apartment teeming with jukeboxes, magazines, and records made more for love than money. → Read More