Journal of the Plague Years
Susan Zakin, Brian Cullman, Bill McKibben, Lucian K. Truscott IV, The Coop Scoop, Gene Weingarten, Joan Juliet BuckLiterary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.
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Editor of Journal of the Plague Years (www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink.) Reporter, columnist, and essayist for magazines including GQ, Vogue, Salon.
Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.
Author, educator, and environmental activist; a founder of 350.org and Third Act.
I am a writer who has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Marc Cooper is an award winning writer, journalist and professor.
Two-time Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer. Intellectual vulgarian. College dropout. Harvard alumnus (long story). Author of six books. Secretly shy smart-ass. Your employee.
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