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Jim Hanas |
I'm a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Slate, Radar, PRINT, Communication Arts, Advertising Age, the New York Daily News, GQ, Salon, the Village Voice, and elsewhere.
I also write fiction, and my stories have appeared in One Story, McSweeney's, Bridge, the Land-Grant College Review, and Fence. Avocationally, I am interested in a range of topics—including, but not limited to, the FCC, curses, found stuff, hoaxes, TV, politics, technology, and Christian Slater (who was, in fact, born on the exact same day as I was)—all of which are covered on this, my blog.
RECENT Work
THE BUBBLE BOY
Josh Harris was the golden boy of the dot-com boom. $100 million later, he's plotting his comeback
Radar [Feb 2008]
The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media
I contributed a few charticles to this snarky guide to the media- entertainment complex. Here are two of them.
SUB STANDARDS and FIGHT CLUB [pdf]
AMERICAN BEAUTY [pdf]
Rising high on last year's Cadillac coup, Modernista! casts its lot with clients ranging from BusinessWeek to Bono.
Communication Arts [Sept/Oct 2007]
IF I HAD $9,000 [pdf]
An F.O.B. item about expensive graphic design accessories.
PRINT [Sept/Oct 2007]
GEORGE SAUNDERS, AMERICAN
An interview with the author of In Persuasion Nation.
Stay Free! [6.14.07]
A WORLD GONE GREEN [registration required]
Environmental awareness has not only tipped in the media—it's hit corporate boardrooms as well.
Advertising Age [6.11.07]
THE WIZARD OF MINEOLA [pdf]
A short item about Flash guru Joshua Davis.
Creativity [Feb 2007]
CLOG JAM
How hideous rubber shoes became summer's most unfortunate fad.
Radar Online [9.15.06]
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
It took him three months and $20,000 to film two amorous armchairs making love on a Manhattan rooftop. Four years later, PES is still discovering the madness of household objects.
PRINT [Sept/Oct 2006]
SINGLE
This free ebooklet—which I like to think of as a "fiction single"—features two previously published short stories: "Miss Tennessee" and "The Cryerer."
Download from manybooks.net
SPACE INVADER
Rupert Mudoch's MySpace page.
Slate [7.04.06]
DO GOODIES
This Sunday, MTV will lure celebs to Miami with boatloads of swag. How many water buffaloes can fit in those gift bags?
Radar Online [8.25.05]
BORING BORING: A DIRECTORY OF DULL THINGS
This parody of Boing Boing cracked the top ten at both Daypop and Blogdex.(Created with Francis Heaney and Deborah Levinson.)
[4.01.05]
SHINY, POINTY & TALL
A photoblog of people taking pictures of the Chrysler Building.
[2004-2005]
OLDER WORK
BROKEDOWN PALACE
A biography of Memphis' most notorious motel.
The Memphis Flyer [2.17.00]
PADDY CHAYEFSKY TURNS ON THE TELEVISION
An essay about how a TV pioneer became the medium's harshest critic.
Gadfly [Dec. 99]
THE ODD COUPLE
What does it take to become a suspect in the suburbs? As one couple found out, it's not evidence.
The Memphis Flyer [11.22.99]
