ARTICLES BY JESSE PEARSON
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 DAVID LYNCH
I am a big-time David Lynch nut. I remember having to steal a copy of Blue Velvet and watch it at a friend’s house because my parents thought it was too sketchy for me to see at 12. I watched each episode of Twin Peaks the night that it originally aired. I saw Wild at Heart and Fire Walk With Me on their opening days. For my money, this guy has made some of the most original, thrilling, deep, and beautiful cinema ever, ever, ever...
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  LES BLANK
The life and career of Les Blank each deserve to have a book or three dedicated to them, not just a puny interview in one issue of one magazine. But that’s all we have to offer right now, and so we humbly present for your perusal this talk with one of the most original documentary filmmakers since filmmakers first started documenting...
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 ROSS McELWEE
Ross McElwee's films are memoirs, not documentaries. Since his watershed moment, the cult classic Sherman's March (1986), through the films that have followed—Time Indefinite (1993), Six O’Clock News (1997), and Bright Leaves (2003)—McElwee has a ...
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 ASHER LEVINE HAS BALLS (AS IF YOU COULDN’T TELL)
Handmade Gym Gear from the Spandex KingVice: I can’t believe that you go to the gym and work out in these outfits.
Asher Levine: I’ve been going to David Barton Gym for about two and a half years now, but last fall, in October, this idea occurred to me. The David Barton experience is like—there are DJs, it’s a sexy scen...
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 WAR IS HELL, AND HELL SUCKS
An Interview with Michael Norman Regarding His and His Wife Elizabeth’s New Book About the Bataan Death MarchThe husband-and-wife writing team Michael and Elizabeth Norman has a new book out this month. It’s called...
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 ELMORE LEONARD IS THE MAN
We won’t waste much time on an intro here because you should already know who this guy is. Let’s just say this: Elmore Leonard, now going on 84 years old, is still cranking out perfectly detailed, thrilling, and hilarious stories of criminals at a pace that’s hard to believe. He wr...
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 HAROLD BLOOM
Harold Bloom is the preeminent literary critic in the world, and as such he is perhaps the last of a dying breed. Bloom adheres, passionately and single-mindedly, to the true and first tenet of lit crit-to take a book and judge it on its own merit, to see it as a thing in and of itself. The aestheti...
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 HARRY CREWS
Harry Crews is one of the most original and important living American novelists there is. He was born the son of sharecroppers in Georgia in 1935. He served as a marine during the Korean War and since then he's had just about every job a man might have to take in his lifetime-from working in a cigar...
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 NAYLAND BLAKE
This guy right here is an artist and a professor and a bear and a pipe man and an S&M switch and—what in hell does all that mean? We don't know. Let's talk to him and find out.
Vice: You were telling me that you're about to go away for a very special weekend...
Nayland Blake: It's b...
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 HARRY BENSON
Harry Benson has taken some of the most recognizable and iconic portraits of the 20th century. After getting his start on Fleet Street in London, working in the daily melee known as Britain's newspaper industry, he photographed everyone from the Beatles to Muhammad Ali to Martin Luther King Jr. to, ...
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 HELLO, I'M A CIVIL WAR REENACTOR!
Excuse Me, I Mean a Progressive, Campaign Living HistorianBill Cross is a Civil War reenactor with a wide range of battles, ranks, and personae under his belt and the current treasurer of the Rowdy Pards "progressive, campaign living history society." Growing up his father hauled him to all the major Civil War battlefields. "As an adult, I became more inte...
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 THOMAS CAHILL IS SAVING CIVILIZATION
Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, which is newly released in a paperback edition, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobwe...
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 LIVING IN CONDITION YELLOW
Hi. I just got back from four days at a firearms training institute in the vicious heat of the Nevada desert, where I learned how to shoot a Glock handgun better, faster, and with more accuracy than probably anybody you know. I learned how to clear malfunctions and fix jams. I learned how to do tact...
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 DAVID THEWLIS AND HIS HOPELESS, HILARIOUS FICTION
The Vice InterviewEven if he hadn’t been the star of maybe our favorite movie of all time, Mike Leigh’s Naked, David Thewlis would still be one of our favorite actors. Not only that, but he’s a great writer. Thewlis deals in funny, observant rhyming poems and hilarious-but-harsh fiction. Then, every once in a ...
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