1. With Argo’s Golden Globe wins last night, today is a good day to read the Josh Bearman story that inspired the movie!  And while you’re at it, check out Baghdad Country Club. 

    With Argo’s Golden Globe wins last night, today is a good day to read the Josh Bearman story that inspired the movie! 

    And while you’re at it, check out Baghdad Country Club. 

  2.

    longformpodcast:

    Episode 17: Joshua Davis

    Joshua Davis, contributing editor at Wired and author of the new ebook John McAfee’s Last Stand, interviewed by Aaron Lammer.

    “This is a pretty unique situation [for me]. Never has a multimillionaire tech pioneer gone on the lam for a murder and called me from hiding. Yeah, this is a first.”

    Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week’s episode!

  3. Ambition. Paranoia. Sex. Joshua Davis’s new Wired Single on the madness of John McAfee.  

    Ambition. Paranoia. Sex. Joshua Davis’s new Wired Single on the madness of John McAfee.  

  4. Wired looks back at the people, places, and things that defined the 1920s and ’30s. Read our latest story for another picture of the era.

    Wired looks back at the people, places, and things that defined the 1920s and ’30s. Read our latest story for another picture of the era.

  5. In Wired, Deborah Blum explains how she got inside the mind of a cannibal.  Get Angel Killer. 

    In Wired, Deborah Blum explains how she got inside the mind of a cannibal. 

    Get Angel Killer. 

  6. The Atavist crew just saw Argo, the film based on Joshuah Bearman’s thrilling Wired story. Read it on Longform and listen to a bonus podcast with the Baghdad Country Club author. 

    The Atavist crew just saw Argo, the film based on Joshuah Bearman’s thrilling Wired story. Read it on Longform and listen to a bonus podcast with the Baghdad Country Club author. 

  7. An exhibit of real props from a fake movie.  Before Argo became a Ben Affleck film, it was a Wired story by Joshuah Bearman, author of Baghdad Country Club. 

    An exhibit of real props from a fake movie. 

    Before Argo became a Ben Affleck film, it was a Wired story by Joshuah Bearman, author of Baghdad Country Club. 

  8.

    longformpodcast:

    Episode 7: Gideon Lewis-Kraus

    Gideon Lewis Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction, interviewed by Aaron Lammer.

    “My best friend, who is a fiction writer, she once said to me that she saw a lot of the things I was doing as ‘wring tenderness from absurdity.’ That wouldn’t have occurred to me to put it that way, but that does seem to me [what] I like to do…. I am someone who can very easily be dismissive, or even contemptuous. And one of the things I like about reporting a story, particularly reporting a story that is ultimately, counterintuitively, positive, is that it gives me a chance to work through that, and be the more tender, sympathetic person that I would like to be in real life.”

  9. Excited to see this movie, which is based on a Wired article written by Baghdad Country Club author Joshuah Bearman. gq: Toronto Film Festival: Tom Carson reviews Argo Tom Carson reviews Argo, Ben Affleck’s take on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis: It’s a safe bet that Ben Affleck, who directed and stars in Argo, didn’t conceive the movie as a salute to American-Canadian relations. But seeing it on my first day here in ever-lovely Toronto added an extra bounce to this nifty and suspenseful blend of Carter-era grit and La-La-Land uproariousness, since Argo does feature a heroic Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber) who successfully hid a half-dozen understandably rattled U.S. embassy employees inside his Teheran official residence, during the 1979 hostage crisis. Read the full review here.

    Excited to see this movie, which is based on a Wired article written by Baghdad Country Club author Joshuah Bearman.

    gq:

    Toronto Film Festival: Tom Carson reviews Argo

    Tom Carson reviews Argo, Ben Affleck’s take on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis:

    It’s a safe bet that Ben Affleck, who directed and stars in Argo, didn’t conceive the movie as a salute to American-Canadian relations. But seeing it on my first day here in ever-lovely Toronto added an extra bounce to this nifty and suspenseful blend of Carter-era grit and La-La-Land uproariousness, since Argo does feature a heroic Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber) who successfully hid a half-dozen understandably rattled U.S. embassy employees inside his Teheran official residence, during the 1979 hostage crisis.

    Read the full review here.

  10. A beautiful $128 photo book, transformed into an immersive $9.99 photo app. 

    A beautiful $128 photo book, transformed into an immersive $9.99 photo app.