David Kushner Reviews

David Kushner is an award-winning writer and writer. His books include Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds, Stormed Las Vegas, Levittown: 2 Families, 1 Divine, as well as the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb, Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, along with Alligator Candy: A Memoir.

Kushner is also author of the graphic novel Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Generation of D&D, illustrated by Koren Shadmi, and also the ebook, The Annals of Marianna: A Reform School, a Bad Secret, along with also a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice. Two collections of the magazine stories are available as audiobooks, The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And Authentic Hacking Stories and Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And Authentic Gambling Stories.

A contributing editor of Rolling Stone, Kushner has written for publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, New York Times Magazine, New York, and GQ, and continues to be an essayist for National Public Radio. His work is featured in #x 201c & several;best of” anthologies: The Very Best American Crime Reporting, The Columbia Journalism Review’s The Best American Travel Writing, The Very Best Music Writing, and Business Writing. He is the winner of the New York Press Club award for Best Feature Reporting. Amazon selected his book The Bones of Marianna as a Best Digital Single of 2013. NPR called his Alligator Candy one of the best novels of 2016. He has taught at New York University.

For articles and advice, visit his site www.davidkushner.com.

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