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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Reverend Johanan Ojok Kibuota shows me his well-marked Bible. Kampala, 2010.

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Jeff Sharlet: I made some books.

The Family, 2008: Six months on the NYT bestseller list. Enabled me to buy a used Nissan Sentra from my step-mother-in-law.

C Street, 2010: This book prompted Ugandan anti-gay would-be genocidaire David Bahati to accuse me of being in a gay couple with Rachel Maddow.

Sweet Heaven When I Die, 2011. My publisher proposed as a title Sweet Fuck All, Colorado, but they got cold feet. A couple of reviewers compared me to Joan Didion, which gave me a celebratory migraine.

Radiant Truths, an anthology of literary journalism.

With Peter Manseau and a used Ford Tempo we bought for $1, I made a book called Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, 2004. The book that is least "mine" and yet feels closest to my heart, my beloved firstborn.

With the staff of KillingTheBuddha.com, I made a book called Believer, Beware, 2009.

I teach mutant journalism at Dartmouth College, and I'm a contributing editor for Harper's, Rolling Stone, & Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2015 I won a National Magazine Award for my GQ article "Inside the Iron Closet."

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Mutations

Sweet Heaven When I Die (2011)
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (2010)
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008)
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, with Peter Manseau (Free Press, 2004)
Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, & Other Essays on American Belief (Yale University Press, 2014)
Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, (Beacon Press, 2009)
"Donald Trump, American Preacher," New York Times Magazine, 2016
"Cult of Hospitality," Travel + Leisure, 2016 (Another Paris terror story)
"The Darkness Show: On Jokes and Terror in Paris," Bookforum, 2016 (paywall)
"Dubliners," Virginia Quarterly Review, 2016
"What We Saw After the Attacks in Paris," Esquire, 2015 (with Tanja Hollander)
"The Invisible Man: The End of a Black Life That Mattered," GQ, 2015
"What Kind of Man Joins the Men's Rights Movement?" GQ, 2015
"A Resourceful Woman," Longreads, 2015
"Instagram's Graveyard Shift," NYT Magazine, 2015
"Inside the Iron Closet," GQ, 2014
"Voice and Hammer," VQR, 2013
"By the Mob's Early Light: The Ritual Significance of Occupy Wall Street," Bookforum, 2012 (paywall)
"Welcome to the Occupation," Rolling Stone, 2011
"Straight Man's Burden," Harper's, 2010
"Jesus Killed Mohammed," Harper's, 2009
"The Cacophony Choir," with David Miller, Killing the Buddha, 2009
"Quebrado," Rolling Stone, 2008
"Teenage Holy War," Rolling Stone, 2007
"Through a Glass, Darkly," Harper's, 2006
"Soldiers of Christ," Harper's, 2005 (download pdf here)
"Jesus Plus Nothing," Harper's, 2003

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Virginia Quarterly Review
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Paul Reyes (editor)
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Of América (Roberto Lovato)
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Killing the Buddha
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Kevin Alexander Gray (agitator)
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Jeff Allred (restless analyst)
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Jane Brox (naturalist)
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Ilana Stanger-Ross (novelist)
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Harper's
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Eric Sullivan (editor)
Emily Raboteau (zion//ist)
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Devin Yalkin (photographer)
Dawn Kim (designer)
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Bill Powers (technologist)
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Ann Neumann (vigiler)
Angela Zito (calligrapher)
Andre Bradley (photographer)
Allison Wright (editor)
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Aimee Bahng (speculator)

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