Dan Piepenbring

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Caos: Los crímenes de Manson

1 month ago | decine21.com | Tom O'Neill |Dan Piepenbring |Errol Morris

Caos: Los crímenes de Manson Chaos: The Manson Murders Duración: 01h 35 min Género: Documental Público apropiado: Jóvenes Valoraciones: decine21 (6) | usuarios (6) 6 Votos usuarios ( 1 voto ) Comentarios Título original: Chaos: The Manson Murders Año: 2025 Fecha de estreno en España en Netflix: 07-03-2025 País: EE.UU. Dirección: Errol Morris Argumento: Tom O'Neill (libro "Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders"), Dan Piepenbring (libro "Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders") Guión:...
'Talk,' by Alison Wood Brooks

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dan Piepenbring

TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, by Alison Wood BrooksI used to think I was a pretty good talker. In middle age, though, I often feel that my sparkling wit has gone flat, my depths have become shoals, my company a study in Brechtian alienation. At such times, there's only one place to turn for advice: behavioral research science.
Transcendence: Prince and the Era-Defining Vox HDC-77 Guitar

Aug 22, 2024 | sothebys.com | Dan Piepenbring

Ranked among the world’s greatest guitar players, Prince shredded on a Vox HDC-77 during the last years of his life while playing with 3RDEYEGIRL. As one of those guitars heads to auction, Dan Piepenbring, the collaborator on Prince’s memoir, reflects on the musician’s chosen instruments. Donna Grantis thought it was a joke at first: an email inviting her to jam with Prince at Paisley Park. But the note was real.
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

Jun 25, 2024 | harpers.org | Dan Piepenbring

One of the most jarring things about the Ku Klux Klan is the silliness of their rituals and titles, their Exalted Cyclopes and Grand Titans of the Dominion; their Klokards, Kludds, and Kligrapps; their bed-linen costumery and blindfold initiation rites. How maddening it is that pure hate should make as a vehicle the world’s dumbest secret society, a fraternity as written by Monty Python.
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

Apr 26, 2024 | harpers.org | Dan Piepenbring

No one can torch the English language like a Beltway insider. A few years ago, phrases like “a feature, not a bug” and “saying the quiet part out loud” burned so fiercely through the Washington commentariat that they enjoyed hardly a moment between the flame of novelty and the ash of cliché.
How a Broadway Theater Was Remade Into a Queer Cabaret

Apr 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dan Piepenbring

The arch also features images of a blue comb and hat, a golden key and a scarlet drop of blood - symbols derived from a plaque on the theater's cornerstone, dating to 1925, which says, "Within these walls the human mind shall once again celebrate with gaiety, with pity and with truth the divine pageant of the human soul." As Scutt thinks of it, "That's 'Cabaret,' full stop."
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

Mar 29, 2024 | harpers.org | Dan Piepenbring

I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking thoughts as cute, pink, and insubstantial as his little toes. With every hour we spend together, I feel, not unpleasantly, my emotional range contracting to match his own. Reduced to the purest trinity—hungry, sleepy, poopy—we will forge a lifelong bond.
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

Feb 26, 2024 | harpers.org | Dan Piepenbring

Because I’ve written about government conspiracies, I sometimes hear from crazy people. “Only the intervention of AI can stop Man from creating Hell cybernetically,” one wrote recently. “It would be better to have AI either remake us or end us as a species.” Tough, but fair. I read such screeds with great interest. Sometimes I’ll google my correspondents, looking for signs of their decline, the lives they led before illness consumed them.
Heritage 2000 | Online Only | n+1 | Dan Piepenbring

Jan 26, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Dan Piepenbring

Sometimes I still can’t believe I had the good fortune of being alive between 11:59:59 PM on December 31, 1999 and 12:00:00 AM on January 1, 2000. Of all the times to exist! It felt momentous then, when I was 13, and it still does: a state of perfect rollover, the ultimate annual flux. A global caesura, a cusp between epochs.
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

Dec 13, 2023 | harpers.org | Dan Piepenbring

The Wa State is an autonomous zone nestled in the highlands of Myanmar bordering China and Thailand. You won’t find it on United Nations maps, but it’s about the size of Belgium, with its own army, schools, and tax collectors. The Wa’s self-sufficiency derives from one of their top exports, methamphetamine, which they produce with such knee-weakening efficiency that, frankly, they make me want to try some.