Nick Paumgarten
Nick Paumgarten has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Prior to that, he was an editor of the Talk of the Town. He has reported on a wide range of subjects, including politics, finance, art, music, food, technology, mountaineering, sports-talk radio, elevators, boxer-bartenders, commuters, and canoes.
Watching the Eclipse from the Highest Mountain in Vermont
People cracked cans of beer and smoked cannabis and popped mushroom gummies and ate smoked-meat sandwiches as totality approached at fifteen hundred miles per hour.
The Prodigies of Harmonies
The vocal trio Tiny Habits, whose following includes Gen Z-ers and Elton John, have a hotel-room singing session after a gig with Kacey Musgraves.
A D.I.Y. Fanzine, Fifty Years On
When Ira Robbins was publishing Trouser Press, he got mail from Pete Townshend and Joan Jett (who told him to get lost). Now he’s publishing a compilation.
Man of Two Thousand Tracks
Tony Visconti, who, over six decades, has produced records by David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and many others, presides over a studio session with Rogue Oliphant.
Stewart Copeland’s “Police Diaries”: Bang On
The drummer and composer talks about his three-take style, Sting’s way with a hit, and his Muppet counterpart, Animal.
A Sunset Toast to Jimmy Buffett
The singer-entrepreneur created a world that many wanted to live in forever.
Joanna Sternberg Is a Music Ninja
Growing up in Manhattan Plaza, an artists’ housing complex, the singer-songwriter sat in with the Marsalis brothers and almost had Alicia Keys as a babysitter.
Big Bad Berghain Bouncer Shows Brooklyn His Berlin Portraits
Sven Marquardt, the überdoorman of the German techno scene, holds an exhibition/dance party for his Robert Mapplethorpe-inspired photographs.
Original Garbage-Can Art Found in Sanitation Department Archive!
The National Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz hadn’t seen the drawing he did for the city’s first recycling campaign—his most ubiquitous art work—since 1986.
Princeton’s Hidden Chaplains
Celebrating the unwitting ministry of the workaday heroes who brighten the days of overanxious Ivy Leaguers.
Self-Care, Rock-and-Roll Division
After weeks on the road, the members of the British band Dry Cleaning settled in for a mani-pedi day in Carroll Gardens.
Todd Rundgren, Renaissance Rocker
Besides “Hello It’s Me,” his C.V. includes playing in a Bowie tribute band, producing Meat Loaf as a Springsteen parody, and getting drunk with Mrs. Soupy Sales.
Getting Serious with Interpol
The rockers Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler meet up at a by-the-piece sushi joint between arena gigs to talk about adult stuff (Banks’s impending engagement) over adult food (nodoguro and o-toro).
Into the Gizzverse with Shrimp and Juicy
Two members of the Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard—which just released its sixth album in the past year—spend a rare day off at a skate park in Brooklyn.
The Paranoid Style, at Kerouac’s Dive
The rocker and critic Elizabeth Nelson and her husband and bandmate, Timothy Bracy, take in Amstel Lights and televised golf and give out tart words for reply guys.
John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah”
“An editor is like a shrink,” was one of many Bennetisms. He was that, and a lot more.
The Stanley Cup Comes to Visit, Accompanied by a Handler in White Gloves
Having survived trips to strip clubs and to Afghanistan, the legendary hockey trophy submits to fondling and copy-editing by the New Yorker staff.
Spoon Gets Sidelined in New York
Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, from the Texas band Spoon, shot some pool to kill time ahead of a gig on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” before COVID rearranged their plans.
Retirement the Margaritaville Way
At the active-living community for Jimmy Buffett enthusiasts, it’s five o’clock everywhere.
She Shot John Belushi, and Other Bad Boys
Marcia Resnick photographed the Blank Generation, punks, poets, and provocateurs, including Johnny Thunders, Gil Scott-Heron, Steve Rubell, and Roy Cohn. Finally, she’s getting a retrospective.
Watching the Eclipse from the Highest Mountain in Vermont
People cracked cans of beer and smoked cannabis and popped mushroom gummies and ate smoked-meat sandwiches as totality approached at fifteen hundred miles per hour.
The Prodigies of Harmonies
The vocal trio Tiny Habits, whose following includes Gen Z-ers and Elton John, have a hotel-room singing session after a gig with Kacey Musgraves.
A D.I.Y. Fanzine, Fifty Years On
When Ira Robbins was publishing Trouser Press, he got mail from Pete Townshend and Joan Jett (who told him to get lost). Now he’s publishing a compilation.
Man of Two Thousand Tracks
Tony Visconti, who, over six decades, has produced records by David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and many others, presides over a studio session with Rogue Oliphant.
Stewart Copeland’s “Police Diaries”: Bang On
The drummer and composer talks about his three-take style, Sting’s way with a hit, and his Muppet counterpart, Animal.
A Sunset Toast to Jimmy Buffett
The singer-entrepreneur created a world that many wanted to live in forever.
Joanna Sternberg Is a Music Ninja
Growing up in Manhattan Plaza, an artists’ housing complex, the singer-songwriter sat in with the Marsalis brothers and almost had Alicia Keys as a babysitter.
Big Bad Berghain Bouncer Shows Brooklyn His Berlin Portraits
Sven Marquardt, the überdoorman of the German techno scene, holds an exhibition/dance party for his Robert Mapplethorpe-inspired photographs.
Original Garbage-Can Art Found in Sanitation Department Archive!
The National Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz hadn’t seen the drawing he did for the city’s first recycling campaign—his most ubiquitous art work—since 1986.
Princeton’s Hidden Chaplains
Celebrating the unwitting ministry of the workaday heroes who brighten the days of overanxious Ivy Leaguers.
Self-Care, Rock-and-Roll Division
After weeks on the road, the members of the British band Dry Cleaning settled in for a mani-pedi day in Carroll Gardens.
Todd Rundgren, Renaissance Rocker
Besides “Hello It’s Me,” his C.V. includes playing in a Bowie tribute band, producing Meat Loaf as a Springsteen parody, and getting drunk with Mrs. Soupy Sales.
Getting Serious with Interpol
The rockers Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler meet up at a by-the-piece sushi joint between arena gigs to talk about adult stuff (Banks’s impending engagement) over adult food (nodoguro and o-toro).
Into the Gizzverse with Shrimp and Juicy
Two members of the Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard—which just released its sixth album in the past year—spend a rare day off at a skate park in Brooklyn.
The Paranoid Style, at Kerouac’s Dive
The rocker and critic Elizabeth Nelson and her husband and bandmate, Timothy Bracy, take in Amstel Lights and televised golf and give out tart words for reply guys.
John Bennet, Enemy of the “Blah Blah Blah”
“An editor is like a shrink,” was one of many Bennetisms. He was that, and a lot more.
The Stanley Cup Comes to Visit, Accompanied by a Handler in White Gloves
Having survived trips to strip clubs and to Afghanistan, the legendary hockey trophy submits to fondling and copy-editing by the New Yorker staff.
Spoon Gets Sidelined in New York
Britt Daniel and Jim Eno, from the Texas band Spoon, shot some pool to kill time ahead of a gig on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” before COVID rearranged their plans.
Retirement the Margaritaville Way
At the active-living community for Jimmy Buffett enthusiasts, it’s five o’clock everywhere.
She Shot John Belushi, and Other Bad Boys
Marcia Resnick photographed the Blank Generation, punks, poets, and provocateurs, including Johnny Thunders, Gil Scott-Heron, Steve Rubell, and Roy Cohn. Finally, she’s getting a retrospective.