Joshuah Bearman

Several of Bearman's articles have been optioned for film and television adaptation. His 2007 Wired article about a CIA mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis was adapted as the 2012 film Argo, with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring.^[8] The screenplay, based on Bearman's article, won the Writer's Guild award for Best Adapted Screenplay,^[9] and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Bearman was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2014^[10] for his article, "Coronado High, the Story of America's First Drug Empire."^[11] It was co-published in GQ and Atavist. His writing has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Technology Writing anthologies.

Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly. He was one half of Team USA in Walleyball, a short film by Brent Hoff about a pick-up game of volleyball at the US-Mexico border. He was the editor-in-chief of Yeti Researcher, a journal in the field of cryptic hominid investigation, published by McSweeney's. He produced and directed McSweeney's Presents, a live comedy series, as a fundraiser for 826LA, a tutoring organization for children.^[12]

In 2014, Bearman co-founded Epic, a digital publication of narrative non-fiction and film and television production company.^[13]

Personal life

Bearman lives in

Works

Articles

• "The Untold Story of Silk Road," Part 1 & and Part 2, Wired, April/May, 2015
• "Coronado High, the Story of America's First Drug Empire," GQ and The Atavist, July, 2013
• "The Big Cigar: How a Hollywood producer smuggled Huey Newton to Cuba," Playboy, January, 2013
• "The Baghdad Country Club, or Casablanca in the Green Zone," The Atavist, January, 2012
• "Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the World's Most Ingenious Thief," Wired, March 22, 2010
• "The Legend of Master Legend," Rolling Stone, December 25, 2008
• "Mr. Romance," The Panorama, McSweeney's issue 33, 2010
• "Can D.I.Y. Replace The First Person Shooter?" The New York Times Magazine, November 15, 2009
• "My Half-Baked Futures Bubble", The New York Times Week in Review, December 9, 2009
• "The Perfect Game: Five Years With the Master of Pac-Man," Harper's, July 2008
• "Escape from Tehran: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Iran," Wired, May 2007
• "The Gospel According to Rio: Heaven's Gate, the Sequel," LA Weekly, March 27, 2007
• "Chest of Lies, or, The Door is the Party: Identity theft and the search for meaning at Sundance," LA Weekly, February 2, 2007
• "The Great Dome: Scenes from Mt. Wilson," LA Weekly, February 22, 2002
• "Xianjiang's Swarm of Giant Gerbils, an Investigation" McSweeney's, issue 14
• "Grass Roots Democracy Means Getting Some Manure on Your Boots: An Epic Tale of the 2004 Iowa Caucuses" The Believer, April 2004
• "The Uninhabited United States Army: Today's Unmanned Desert Race-Bots Are Tomorrow's War Machines" The Believer, May 2004
• "The Uninhabited United States Air Force: The Fever Dream of Military Planning" The Believer, August 2003
• "Total Information Awareness: An Interview with Usama Hayyad, Data Mining Pioneer" The Believer, August 2004
• "But Will it Bring Back the Dinosaurs? End Times at the Long Island's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 3" McSweeneys, 2000
• "Unnatural History: Fake Fossils and Other Things in the Ground" McSweeney's, Issue 8
• "In a little valley in West Jerusalem: An interview with my father about the Dead Sea Scrolls" McSweeney's, Issue 4

This American Life

• This American Life Live at BAM!
• Episode 528: The Radio Drama Episode!
• Episode 500: 500!
• Episode 475: Send a Message
• Episode 323: The Super
• Episode 334: Duty Calls
• Episode 371: Scenes From a Mall
• Episode 447: The Incredible Case of the PI Moms
• Episode 475: Send a Message

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