Joshuah Bearman is a former staff writer and editor for the LA Weekly

LA Weekly

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. He writes for Rolling Stone

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, Harper's, Wired

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, The New York Times Magazine

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, The Believer

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, McSweeney's

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, The Huffington Post

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and contributes to This American Life

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. Bearman was a contributing producer on the documentary, The King of Kong. 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. Bearman is a board member of 826LA, a non-profit tutoring center in Los Angeles. He lives in Hollywood, California, and is currently working on a book for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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 into the film Argo, with George Clooney producing and Ben Affleck directing and starring. The film is currently in production.

Articles

• "Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the World's Most Ingenius 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
• "Stuffu Happens: Why is Japan so Crazy/Awesome?" Culture + Travel, March 2008
• "Chest of Lies, or, The Door is the Party: Identity theft and the search for meaning at Sundance," LA Weekly, February 2, 2007
• "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

This American Life

• Episode 323: The Super
• Episode 334: Duty Calls
• Episode 371: Scenes From a Mall
• Episode 447: The Incredible Case of the PI Moms

External links

• Joshuah Bearman at LA Weekly
  LA Weekly
  LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
  
  
• Official website
• Yeti Researcher
• Joshuah Bearman at The Believer
  The Believer (magazine)
  The Believer is a United States literary magazine that also covers other arts and general culture. Founded and designed in 2003 by the writer and publisher Dave Eggers, it is edited by Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Ed Park...
  
  
• Joshuah Bearman at Internet Movie Database.