Jesse Barron
@_jessebarron
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Contributing writer @NYTmag. Producer on "The Girl From Plainville" @hulu. Alexa, play a sad song. [email protected]
Los Angeles
Joined April 2014
Los Angeles friends: I'll be moderating a talk with the GOAT himself, David Grann, on June 9th. Come through!
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Honored to be a finalist for an SFJ award, alongside stories I really admire.
GENERAL FEATURE – 2,500+ WORDS, DIV 3. Excellent long-form feature storytelling on topics such as A&E, lifestyles or news. 🥇 1st Place: @lauracrimaldi Yvonne Abraham, @BostonGlobe .🥈 2nd Place: @_jessebarron .🥉 3rd Place: @andsachs_sachs .🏅 Honorable Mention: @kevintshea
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RT @GrantaMag: ‘Gary intended “Remission” to be similar, on the surface, to the books in his great “American crime” trilogy, at least in th….
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Israel has charged hundreds of Arab citizens with terrorism for social-media posts. I wrote about one extreme case, against a 21 year old college student.
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I last wrote about Remington and its private-equity ownership a few years back, for the magazine.
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With Jesse McKinley, I wrote about the (real) reasons why gun companies like Remington are leaving the northeast.
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Well, Jessica Pratt has done it again. Love this single from her new album about the dark side of the California dream.
The turning of the tide is upon us, friends. My new album, Here in the Pitch, is out May 3rd, 2024. Many seasons came and went while I built this thing through fear, tears and daydreams. Listen to first song, Life Is. Tour dates and album pre-save here:
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New from me: the story of an Irish music manager who tried to scam the Nigerian government out of $11 billion.
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And here's my magazine story about the case from last month. Don't believe all the viral media you see from SF! 2/2
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A homeless man in SF was found not guilty of beating a former city official after his public defender argued that the city official was in fact a vigilante who preyed on the homeless. I wrote a short dispatch about the verdict. 1/2
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FWIW, that sentence isn't intended as snarky. It's a gloss of McDonell's line in Quiet Street about staying in "a combat outpost located within the reassuringly thick walls of the summer palace." My line about class dynamics, too, relies partly on McDonell (Bodies p. 6 e.g.).
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The experience McDonell recounts in Quiet Street is the embedded reporting (page 48). But you're right that he reported alongside an Iraqi civil defense unit for "The Bodies in Person," and Bookforum is correcting to clarify this.
Since this is a factual error from @_jessebarron , @bookforum should issue a correction, but even aside from that, US-based reporters probably shouldn’t make snarky asides about how little danger war correspondents experience.
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Good piece, which addresses one of my deepest hatreds: LED streetlights.
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Someone take out their mf checkbook! There’s nothing like Bookforum. It’s where writers write for their friends but in a way that invites everyone. I love my editor Dave O’Neill.
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RT @nytimes: At 17, she was sentenced to 41 years for a crime she'd committed. This year, at 58, she had a chance to regain her freedom. Bu….
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Just as he was about to retire, a California judge stumbled into a murder case from the beginning of his career. My story's on the cover of this Sunday's @NYTmag.
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Conclusion of a totally absurd saga: two people arrested in fraud charges linked to the "100 million dollar deli."
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