Bill Wasik

Bill Wasik

Biography:

Bill Wasik is a senior editor of Wired Magazine, and was previously a senior editor at Harper's Magazine. He has also contributed to McSweeney's and served as editor of The Weekly Week. Mr. Wasik revealed himself in 2006 to be the inventor of the flash mob, having anonymously organized the first recognized examples in New York City during the summer of 2003. Wasik is the author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture. He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine.

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  • Lincoln Assassination

    Ian Punnett (Twitter) was joined by author Timothy L. O'Brien, who discussed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the culture of that period in American history. In the first hour, James Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, shared his thoughts on the new Bond film, Skyfall....More »

Last Night

Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death / Ancient Codes
Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's Death / Ancient Codes
Author Mark Dawidziak delved into the life, final days and mysterious death of iconic American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Followed by filmmaker Melissa Tittl, who discussed her new documentary, Code 12, which examines the secret nature of reality.

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