dept. of song ·
Besides “Hello It’s Me,” his C.V. includes playing in a Bowie tribute band, producing Meat Loaf as a Springsteen parody, and getting drunk with Mrs. Soupy Sales, Nick Paumgarten writes.
Nick Paumgarten
Nick Paumgarten, a staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 2000.
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strange bedfellows dept. ·
Nick Paumgarten writes about Owsley Stanley, the legendary Grateful Dead soundman and LSD chemist, who left behind thirteen hundred reels of live recordings from his sonic laboratory, including a newly released recording of the night Johnny Cash came to town.
good casting dept. ·
Fly-fishing in Great Kills Harbor, the Reagan-era hit machine talks about his childhood with the Beats in the Bay Area, and the challenge of making music while losing his hearing.
a reporter at large ·
As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease, Nick Paumgarten writes.
a reporter at large ·
Canoeing the Rio Grande reveals how life and a landscape would be changed along the border.
a reporter at large ·
Nick Paumgarten writes about “O.G.,” a movie that tries to capture the hope and despair of inmates’ lives.
profiles ·
In the follow-up to her breakthrough experimental album, is Annie Clark making a grab for pop success?
new york journal ·
The début of New York’s newest train line took place at noon on New Year’s Day—ninety-seven years after it was first conceived.
annals of dining ·
Nick Paumgarten on the chef’s mysterious basement restaurant in Earlton, New York, and its ten-year waiting list.
profiles ·
Nick Paumgarten on Peter Adeney, the man behind the blog Mr. Money Mustache, which promises liberation through thrift.
letter from new jersey ·
Nick Paumgarten writes about the New Jersey city and Revel, the casino that was supposed to turn things around.
repo dept. ·
The woman showed Brooke Shields a picture of a for-sale sign propped up on the back of a maroon two-door 1983 Mercedes SEC. In parentheses were the words …
profiles ·
From 2010: Nick Paumgarten’s Profile of Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind many of Nintendo’s best-known video games, including Mario and Donkey Kong.
profiles ·
Elvis Costello’s boundless career.
profiles ·
Nick Paumgarten writes about Millard Drexler, the C.E.O. of the clothing company J. Crew, and his views on fashion as a business.
profiles ·
Does Whole Foods’ C.E.O. know what’s best for you?
our local correspondents ·
Nick Paumgarten’s 2008 story about a Nicholas White, who got stuck on an elevator, and the history of elevators and city life.
profiles ·
The making of Mort Zuckerman.
the sporting scene ·
Nick Paumgarten skis with the mountaineer Andrew McLean, who specializes in chutes—steep, narrow flumes of snow that plunge like elevator shafts.
profiles ·
What Mike and the Mad Dog talk about when they talk about sports.