Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently dusted off by Mark Jacobson for PKM. ...
The punk-era holdouts The Mekons, originally from the UK but now scattered worldwide, were set to reunite to record their 23rd album. Then COVID-19 hit, and the...
When Sonny Franzese died last month at age 103, he was the last living remnant of the New York Mafia from its heyday. A feared enforcer and dictatorial head of ...
Based on a novel by Richard Condon, the feature film Winter Kills (1979) reimagined the JFK assassination and the paranoia unleashed by that history-changing ev...
Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope-dealer who Denzel Washington made famous in American Gangster, is remembered by his friend, Mark Jacobson, the man who first told h...
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.
