Former PhD student ( History, without degree ) and MFA graduate. Disciple of historians and writers everywhere.

Editor in Chief, GEN by Medium. Previously: Random House Publishing Group, GQ, Condé Nast Portfolio, Esquire

seen/heard in/on GQ MTV Grantland the New York Times the Los Angeles Times & Men’s Health & a couple of times Esquire and the New Yorker & various podcasts

Journalist and author of “Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen”: www.brianraftery.com

Short story collection, Different Class Action, is out. https://a.co/d/bk6mr2Z . My novel Virtually Damned is available from Alien Buddha https://a.co/d/hYC46pe