Chris Beam
@jcbeam
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@TheAtlantic @NYTimes @BW https://t.co/PX4icqXMPX
New York, NY
Joined April 2007
Ayn Rand gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver. For @theatlantic, my deep dive on the ugly battle for Ayn Rand’s estate:.
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RT @amandamull: Nothing I'd read about the bad job market for new college grads felt quite right, so I did some digging and found what I th….
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RT @CharlesRollet1: @bcamcrane was chased through a mall in Manila for this story. give it a read!
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“Artists,” he said with a tender smile, as if we were talking about his kids. “They don’t want to destroy the idea that they are still chiseling with a hammer.”. @MatthewHartNY on the robot sculpting boom.
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RT @AndrewAoyama: For @TheAtlantic's August issue, I wrote about the last time the U.S. government said a group of immigrants posed a threa….
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Spent a brain-melting amount of time talking, reading, and thinking about the Zizians:.
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Had a blast talking to @KaiserKuo about China, American football, and the true meaning of YOLO.
Here's a fun episode of the @SinicaPodcast, about an NFL-style football team from Chongqing, and how a 2014 feature about them by writer Chris Beam — optioned by big Hollywood studios but never made — *was* made by China's iQiyi. Link in replies!
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RT @SophieHaigney: I caught up with Geoff Dyer! We talked about how boring childhood can be, and why he can't make progress with Proust, am….
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A Chinese movie studio (unofficially) adapted my 2014 article about an American football team. The differences from the original say a lot about how US-China relations have deteriorated
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RT @AlecMacGillis: It's hard to overstate what turmoil the research-scientist realm is in right now. Such anxiety in these capsules: https:….
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RT @bcamcrane: "John McPhee has compared the sensation of being a young writer to that of a canoeist floating downstream on a river. There….
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RT @BarbaraDemick: In 2009, I interviewed a Chinese man who daughter was stolen by local officials. She was found in Indiana. This is her s….
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RT @loracorkelley: For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about a new book on multi-level marketing, and what this nominally fringey industry tells us a….
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RT @JeremiahDJohns: Just read a great piece in The Atlantic about the rise of the chicken sandwiches. Fantastic article and yes, the variet….
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