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| ⚫ | '''Mark Ames''' (born 1965) is a ]-based ] ] and editor. He is the founding editor of the ] biweekly '']'' in Moscow, to which he regularly contributes. Ames has also written for the '']'', '']'', '']'', ''Птюч Connection'', and is the author of three books. | ||
| ==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| Ames was raised in ], where he attended an Episcopalian private school. . After leaving Saratoga, he attended ], after which he lived in poverty in ], ], ], and ], and played in a short-lived punk band. | |||
| Born in 1965, Ames was raised in ], a then-provincial town in the ]'s Silicon Valley, where he attended an Episcopalian private school. His Saratoga upbringing produced a lasting influence on his writing. | |||
| ⚫ | In August 1991, Ames visited Europe, staying for two weeks in St. Petersburg, and though he returned to the ] to live in ], he continued thinking of ], and delved into Russian literature. After spending some time in ], Ames moved to ]. In 1995, he wrote "The Rise and Fall of Moscow's Expat 'Royalty'" for the English-language Moscow newspaper '']'', and was shortly thereafter hired by its competitor ''Living Here''. He left in 1997 to establish '']'', where he remains as writer and editor. | ||
| After leaving Saratoga, Ames attended ] while living with his father (his parents had divorced when Ames was eight years old). He later described how his college years shaped his later political views in a section of the eXile book (''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia''): | |||
| :"I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame ... Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all. We'd ridicule the boring lefties, our enemies. We'd drop all sorts of drugs and go to the underground shows: Scratch Acid, Husker Du, Sonic Youth. It felt like something might happen, and soon." () | |||
| After college, Ames "lived in poverty and vileness" ("жил в бедности и злобе," according to his publisher's biographical sketch) in ], ], ], and ], and played in a short-lived punk band. () In the eXile book he recalls this period of his life as a dull one: | |||
| :"The Bush years marked my decline, the Fall of my empire of dreams. When Bush and his golfing buddies got tossed out in '92, I started thinking, hey, Bush and I have a lot in common. Except in one small respect: Bush was a filthy-rich historical figure, whereas I was an unemployed, barely-published, aging zero." | |||
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| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
| *''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'' |
*Ames, Mark & Taibbi, Matt. ''The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia'', 2000. ISBN 0802136524 | ||
| *''В Россию с любовью (Записки американского изгоя)'', Мама Пресс, |
*Ames, Mark. ''В Россию с любовью (Записки американского изгоя)'', Мама Пресс, 2002. ISBN 5902382025 (''In Russia with Love (Notes from an American Outcast)'' | ||
| *''Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'', |
*Ames, Mark. ''Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'', 2005. ISBN 1932360824 | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| * - a feature on Mark Ames including a brief introduction by Dan Pulcrano and several excerpts from the eXile book. | * - a feature on Mark Ames including a brief introduction by Dan Pulcrano and several excerpts from the eXile book. | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| *'']'' of ''Going Postal,'' ] 2005 | |||
| * interview with Amy Goodman, Greg Palast, and Dan Briody ] 2003 | |||
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Mark Ames (born 1965) is a Moscow-based American journalist and editor. He is the founding editor of the satirical biweekly the eXile in Moscow, to which he regularly contributes. Ames has also written for the New York Press, The Nation, Alternet, Птюч Connection, and is the author of three books.
Biography
Ames was raised in Saratoga, California, where he attended an Episcopalian private school. . After leaving Saratoga, he attended UC Berkeley, after which he lived in poverty in New York, Boston, San Fransisco, and Prague, and played in a short-lived punk band.
In August 1991, Ames visited Europe, staying for two weeks in St. Petersburg, and though he returned to the United States to live in Foster City, California, he continued thinking of Russia, and delved into Russian literature. After spending some time in Prague, Ames moved to Moscow. In 1995, he wrote "The Rise and Fall of Moscow's Expat 'Royalty'" for the English-language Moscow newspaper The Moscow Times, and was shortly thereafter hired by its competitor Living Here. He left in 1997 to establish the eXile, where he remains as writer and editor.
Bibliography
- Ames, Mark & Taibbi, Matt. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, 2000. ISBN 0802136524
- Ames, Mark. В Россию с любовью (Записки американского изгоя), Мама Пресс, 2002. ISBN 5902382025 (In Russia with Love (Notes from an American Outcast)
- Ames, Mark. Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond, 2005. ISBN 1932360824
See also
External links
- A column written by Ames in 2003 for New York Press, about (and against) Spin Magazine writer Chuck Klosterman.
- 'BOOKS' (NY Press, Volume 18, Issue 21, May 25, 2005)
- The Exile - an English language, Moscow-based, semi-weekly alternative paper
- 'Trenchant Warfare!' (Silicon Valley Metro, May 25-31, 2000)
- 'From Russia With Malice' (Reason Magazine, January 2001)
- AlterNet, 3 October 2005, "A Brief History of Rage, Murder and Rebellion" - interview with Ames
- Mark Ames of 'the eXile' - a feature on Mark Ames including a brief introduction by Dan Pulcrano and several excerpts from the eXile book.