Daniel Riley
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Correspondent, @GQMagazine // Novels: FLY ME (2017), BARCELONA DAYS (2020), @littlebrown
New York, NY
Joined January 2010
went to the Hudson Valley to ride horses, eat dinner, and sit by a fire talking about good fortune and great suffering with Walton Goggins, a former valet parker from Lithia Springs, Georgia
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Three decades after he arrived in Hollywood with $300 in his pocket, Goggins is finally a bona fide star, with another season of the smash hit Fallout on deck and a risky, personal role in HBO’s The...
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Welcome to Location Scout, a new @GQMagazine interview series where we ask our favorite directors and actors for travel recs where they shot their latest project. First up: Robert Eggers, who spent 9 months in Prague for NOSFERATU
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The 'Nosferatu' director also shares his favorite spots to eat Czech food and the bar where the movie’s cast got the best beer in the city.
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Presenting a new GQ Video Cover Story, live from Dwayne Johnson’s farm in Virginia. Print profile too. Two guys fishing and talking about their dads. Watch it/read it here: https://t.co/qFBZt7ZEEs
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“It almost turned into a full-on cop-versus-twink extravaganza.” the AGONY and ECSTASY of the timothée chalamet lookalike contest for @GQMagazine
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Chase Hall's deeply sophisticated paintings are already obsessed over by MoMA trustees and Tyler, the Creator. For @GQMagazine's November issue, Hall, on the cusp of real deal art stardom, shows me his most ambitious work yet
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He paints large-scale canvases with coffee, examining mixed-race identity in America. And his future is blindingly bright.
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I tried to figure out, and survive, the newest version of Las Vegas, American city. https://t.co/ISrmEEkvZr
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New food, new art, new sports, new heat, and, yes, new Sphere.
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In February, I started looking into the boom in cosmetic dentistry, to understand why rappers, influencers and ordinary people pay big money for a procedure once reserved for Hollywood movie stars. @GQMagazine sent me to Beverly Hills for answers. https://t.co/NAIymbFgQv?
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Once a dirty secret, veneers are now a luxury status symbol, and the wealthy elite are flocking to Hollywood’s favorite dentist for ever more perfect teeth.
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“When I ask him to describe a through line between the characters he’s played, he says, ‘People who want to be something so much but don't have the instrument to play that kind of music.’” Profiled Paul Mescal for the November cover of @gqmagazine: https://t.co/FlRRVFmWEK
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Presenting our November cover star: Paul Mescal. The shorts get shorter. The roles get bolder. The fans grow ever more ravenous. Now, Paul Mescal is trading his indie tears for blockbuster blood as the centerpiece of Ridley Scott’s #GladiatorII 🔗: https://t.co/eBd8iNHCCH
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The greatest Knicks team that never was The idea was simple: reunite four college teammates in the pros, and bring a title to the Garden. The reality was more complicated. This is the story of the Nova Knicks: https://t.co/1FnYcqImKp
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Our tribute to the Nova Knicks, who burned short and bright, starring Jalen, Josh, Mikal, Donte (😭), Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan ("This is New York City, baby! This is where King Kong died!"), Jay Wright, and an extremely polite "no comment" from Thibs: https://t.co/06L8Qzm64i
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The idea was simple: reunite four college teammates in the pros, and bring a title to the Garden. The reality was more complicated. This is the story of the Nova Knicks.
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I wrote about the incredible year of growth in the WNBA this year — how we got to this point, what it's looked like from the inside, and where it might go from here — for @GQMagazine:
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Caitlin Clark! A’ja Wilson! Angel Reese! This year, women’s hoops emerged as a dominant pop-cultural force. But the road to sports-league supremacy has been long and winding. This is the inside story...
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one more conversation w @mnadown + @konradmkay about industry season 3 in @GQMagazine including: >what almost didn't make it into the finale >willy wars >drake's industry fandom >cut-to-black needle drops >rob's gen z don draper cut >season 4 - us or uk? https://t.co/5a3BIV3BfS
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In the wake of the series' breakthrough season—and a packed season finale that seems to sweep ‘Industry’'s whole status quo off the table—showrunners Down and Kay talk about death, class, pixelated...
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Last week, dropped by the @Criterion office to learn about the origins of the iconic Criterion Closet My latest for @GQMagazine! Featuring @_Ash_Clark, @Isabelvsandoval, @hillcake, Ray Yeung & more https://t.co/KAd6t8FP6W
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From Ayo Edebiri to Agnès Varda, generations of actors and directors have stopped by the most iconic stockroom in film history to flex their taste and talk about the films that made them. In a GQ...
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Beyoncé Knowles-Carter @Beyonce for the global October cover of @GQMagazine. Photos by Bryce Anderson. Styling by Katie Grand. Interview by @The_SummerMan. Full story and photos here: https://t.co/wzbYO6k5IA
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Presenting GQ’s October cover star, @Beyonce "It’s not about being perfect. It’s about being revolutionary.” In a rare interview, the superstar opens up to GQ about her extraordinary legacy, her new whiskey brand, motherhood and much more. 🔗: https://t.co/hqfkyaC5N9
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for GQ's October cover story, I talked (e-mailed lmao) with Beyoncé about perfectionism, visuals, Blue, whisky and That Mexican OT. Hope you enjoy it: https://t.co/trVlzRT6tR
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My scene report from Time Square (aka Time Again), where even Olympians go to party on Tuesday nights https://t.co/Mnjb6WTJll
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Time Again has brought a Clipse concert and weeknight block parties to the outer regions of Dimes Square.
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“I remember when I was 20 years old and I heard somebody died at 63? I’m like: They lived a good life.” Interviewed George Clooney and Brad Pitt for the September issue of @GQMagazine
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They’ve spent three decades living intertwined lives at the inconceivably glamorous height of Hollywood. Now, having crossed the threshold of 60, they’re more comfortable than ever throwing bombs,...
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