Mark Jacobson is a former staff writer of the Village Voice, also contributing editor of Rolling Stone, Esquire and New York Magazine. He is the author of several books including the novel Gojiro, Godzilla's story told from the monster's point of view and most recently Pale Horse Rider, a biography of William Cooper, the inventor of the so-called "Truth" Movement. He has known Please Kill Me co-author Legs McNeil for more than forty-five years and still gets along with him, no small feat.