Bill Wasik
Senior Editor, Harper’s Magazine
Bill Wasik is a senior editor of Harper's Magazine. He has also contributed to McSweeney's and served as Editor of The Weekly Week. Mr. Wasik revealed himself in 2006 to be the inventor of the flash mob, having anonymously organized the first recognized examples in New York City during the summer of 2003.
Wasik is the author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009). He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine (New Press, 2008)
Wasik is the author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009). He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine (New Press, 2008)
A conversation with the author and Senior Editor of Harper’s Magazine.
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Writers, take note of the venues that keep the craft alive.
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These are the reasons print media is here to stay.
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Electronic media builds communities but also distracts us relentlessly.
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American society’s Internet addiction is natural and avoiding it is nearly impossible.
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Conformity in hipster culture knows no bounds.
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The Harper’s editor explains the evolution of a very original kind of performance art.
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