PublicAffairs
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards
A rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.
“A well-made disco ball of a book — it’s big, discursive, ardent, intellectual and flecked with gossip. The Freaks Came Out to Write may be the best history of a journalistic enterprise I’ve ever read.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times

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