Editor and writer in NYC. Ex-features editor at the Village Voice, ex-finance editor at Bloomberg Digital. Storyteller, news addict. I write for NewYorker.com and others | markgimein@gmail.com
Keepers of the Secrets
Looking for the most interesting man in the world, in a small room in the New York Public Library.
by James Somers
Editor: Mark Gimein
Escape to New York | Village Voice
Refugees from war and violence struggle to make it in New York
by Sulome Anderson
Editor: Mark Gimein
Dying in Solitary
Adam Hall Tried to Kill Himself in Prison. And Got Six More Years
by James Ridgeway and Katie Rose Quandt
Editor: Mark Gimein
Smoke And Mirrors: Sixteen Views of Trump's Glittering Fifth Avenue Dream
Photo portfolio with photos by Andrew Lichtenstein and essay by Amy Waldman.
Editor: Mark Gimein
How to Write in the Age of Trump
A brilliant series of warnings on Inauguration Day about the coming era. 12,000+ shares
by Aleksandar Hemon
Editor: Mark Gimein
Running From, and Back To, Ralph Ellison's Harlem | Village Voice
by Selin Thomas
Editor: Mark Gimein
So You Wanna Be a K-Pop Star?
A coming-of-age story set inthe world of K-Pop. Think you couldn't care less about K-Pop? Keep reading ...
by Alina Simone
Editors: Mark Gimein and Mark Robinson
Once, the U.S. Fought to Take In Refugees Like Me | Village Voice
Six or seven years after my parents and I arrived as refugees from the Soviet Union — it would have been the early 1980s ...
Portrait of the Artist, Ana Mendieta, Iowa City, 1973
How one artist came to make art out of the things we try not to see.
by Jenna Sauers
Editor: Mark Gimein
5,500 Revelers. One Search for a Life Changing Experience.
Wherein a writer gets sent to a rave at the mouth of the "Gates of Hell," and finds herself among the fraggles.
by Eileen Townsend
Editor: Mark Gimein
Bernie the Musical
A Bernie Sanders Musical Takes the Revolution From Park Slope to Burlingon
by Michael Appler
Editor: Mark Gimein
The Cage Match Candidate
Bo Dietl's done Fox News and Mar-a-Lago. Now he wans to be mayor.
by Jared Keller
Editor: Mark Gimein
Our Imperial Cities
Why the High Cost of Big-City Living Is Bad for Everyone from NewYorker.com.
Lynching's Long Shadow | Village Voice
Texas, Trump, and the GOP by Cynthia Bond
Editor: Mark Gimein
Trump's America
A pre-election Village Voice cover package looking at the potential dystopia ahead. [PDF]