Contributing editor for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice,
Esquire and New York Magazine.
Movies:
American Gangster
(2007)
A Ridley Scott film starring Denzel Washington and Russell
Crowe
See also the Official
website
For the real lowdown on Frank Lucas, check out Marks'
article, The Return of
Superfly, from New York Magazine.
Frank Lucas (the gangster), Richie Roberts (the cop),
Nicholas Pileggi, and Mark Jacobson discussed the film with
Charlie Rose.
The Believer (2001) (based on
a story by Mark Jacobson)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001Sundance Film
Festival, and the Humanitas Prize.
See also the Official website
Books:
American Gangster (2007)
(film release) Amazon Blackstone
Audiobook
American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York (2007)
Available from Amazon
Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk
to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism
(2005)
Available from Amazon
12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time (2003)
Available from Amazon (hardcover) Amazon (paperback)
Everyone and No One (1997)
Available from Amazon
Gojiro: A Novel (1991)
Available from Amazon eBooks Google Books Barnes&Noble
Articles:
New York
Magazine (archive)
Village Voice (articles)
The (Chinese) Gangs of New
York - originally published in the Village Voice (Jan 1977)
Guyana's gold standard - gold-mining boom - Natural History (Sept 1998)
Dharavi:
Mumbai's Shadow city - National Geographic (May
2007)
Podcasts:
KGB
Radio Hour and other podcasts with host Mark
Jacobson
About Mark:
New York
Storytelling from The Commentator
Public Radio interview about
"12,000 miles"
CNN showbiz interview on 9/11 conspiracy theories -
YouTube video
Entry on LibraryThing