Playboy • November 16, 2018

#FreeTheNipple Creator Lina Esco on Her Crusade for the ERA

She arrives to our interview fresh from the boxing gym, dressed in ripped jeans and a faded Fugazi T-shirt, her chin-length hair framing a strong jawline and a pair of dark, searching eyes. The setting is apt: Esco learned at an early age that when it comes to advocacy, show business can be as powerful as politics.

Los Angeles Review of Books • June 28, 2021

The Haunted Van: Talking with Josh Malerman and The High Strung

When he was about 14, Josh Malerman saw a strange man in the living room of his parents’ house. The rest of the family was asleep, and Josh was watching USA Up All Night. Sensing movement in the room...

pastemagazine.com • October 23, 2020

The Art of Stand-Up: 10 Tips from Tim Heidecker

About halfway through An Evening With Tim Heidecker, an audience member proposes to his girlfriend onstage. This genuinely moving moment is the centerpiece of a set that begins with a mic stand-related tantrum...

FLOOD • February 2, 2021

The Sloppy Boys Blow Minds in “Tha Mastah Bong Rippah”

The Sloppy Boys knew exactly how they wanted to celebrate the release of their third album, Paradiso: with “a big sweaty kooky tour,” in the words of singer-guitarist Tim Kalpakis. Unfortunately, Paradiso came out last July. How does a self-proclaimed “party rock band” endure when parties and rocking are on indefinite hold?

Playboy • June 23, 2020

Deep in the Desert, a Revolutionary Retreat

Performer, stylist and activist Love Bailey has built an Inland Empire commune for marginalized artists—a discrimination-free creative space where, to quote one resident, “even the dirt is glam.”

Playboy • June 19, 2020

‘How Art Comes True’: A Timely Talk With Phoebe Bridgers

Bridgers’s eerily prophetic new album came out last week but feels like it was written within the past month. So does its “bio,” written by In the Dream House author Carmen Maria Machado.

Playboy • December 17, 2019

Eric Andre for President

It’s about attitude, and it’s about time. Eric Andre, host of Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show and star of the prank-based feature film Bad Trip, is running for president and, like most of his fellow candidates, investing all his energy in the construction of an attention-grabbing persona.

Playboy • June 26, 2018

Playboy 20Q: Lakeith Stanfield

The enthralling actor talks aspiration, Atlanta (and not knowing Donald Glover was once on Community) and the truth behind his surreal Oscars cameo.

The Rumpus • June 25, 2013

The Rumpus Interview with Kurt Vile

You can get a sense of Kurt Vile’s many contradictions the second you lay eyes on his new album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze: There is his name, painted in giant letters across an entire building; beneath that is a lower wall festooned with lyrics, and then the man himself, slouching in the corner.

The Airship • July 30, 2020

The Panic and Rapture of Martin Amis

Desmond Pepperdine has a secret — one that’s revealed on the first page of Martin Amis’s new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England. The secret itself is pretty unthinkable, but it precipitates a crime so unthinkable that, once it’s happened, Desmond can’t think about it.

PAPER • February 11, 2015

Danny Masterson Tells Us About His Life in the Church of Scientology

When Danny Masterson appeared on our cover six years ago, the topic of his beliefs was tucked into a single paragraph toward the end of the story. Reconnecting with Masterson last month, we asked if we could focus in on the religion—"religious philosophy," as he calls it—and why it works for him.

The Talkhouse • March 29, 2014

James Rickman (People Get Ready) Talks the Horrifically Happy Stirrings of GWAR's Dave Brockie

Whatever planet Oderus and the Scumdogs were from, I don’t think it’s that far from here.