Episode 316: Joe Hagan

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 4:50 p.m.

b'Joe Hagan is a correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.\\n\\n\\u201cIt\\u2019s the story that begins with John Lennon on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1967 and ends with Donald Trump in the White House. In many ways the book takes you there, I wanted it to. It takes you through the culture as it metastasizes into what it is now. It had a lot to do with a sense of the age of narcissism. The worship of celebrity. Jann was very into celebrity, and worshipful of it and glorifying it and turning it into a thing and eventually celebrity displaces a lot of the ideas they originally started with in my estimation. That was a narrative thread that I began to pull in the book.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Skagen, Screen Dive, Stoner, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\n\\n@joehagansays\\n\\n\\nHagan on Longform\\n\\n\\n[09:45] "Blues Cruise" (New York \\u2022 Dec 2012)\\n\\n\\n[09:50] "Shipping Out" (David Foster Wallace \\u2022 Harper\'s \\u2022 Jan 1996)\\n\\n\\n[11:10] Among the Thugs (Bill Buford \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 1993)\\n\\n\\n[16:25] "An Incorrect Artifact With Aging Fans" (New York Times \\u2022 Oct 2000)\\n\\n\\n[22:10] "The Long, Lawless Ride of Sheriff Joe Arpaio" (Rolling Stone \\u2022 Aug 2012)\\n\\n\\n[25:45] "Tenacious G" (New York \\u2022 Jul 2009)\\n\\n\\n[33:35] Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fari\\xf1a, and Richard Fari\\xf1a (David Hajdu \\u2022 Picador \\u2022 2011)\\n\\n\\n[42:20] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Hunter S. Thompson \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 1972)\\n\\n\\n[1:09:30] "The Trouble With Johnny Depp" (Stephen Rodrick \\u2022 Rolling Stone \\u2022 Jun 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'