Tad Friend
Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He is the author of the memoir “ In the Early Times: A Life Reframed .”
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Glenn Horowitz sold the archives of writers including Vladimir Nabokov, Alice Walker, Bob Dylan, and Gabriel García Márquez. Then Don Henley of the Eagles accused him of possessing stolen property.
Eating meat creates huge environmental costs. Impossible Foods thinks it has a solution, Tad Friend writes.
Andrew Stanton, the director of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E,” faces the complications of live action.
Steve Carell and the meticulous art of spontaneity.
Inside a movie marketer’s playbook.
Every two weeks, on average, someone jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. What makes it such a magnet for the suicidal?
Roy Lee brings Asia to Hollywood, and finds some enemies along the way.
Tad Friend on Garry Shandling, of “The Larry Sanders Show,” and the dangers of mixing business with friendship.