Mark Ames

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A Photograph of Mark Ames

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. [1]. 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. [2]

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, [3] 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

• The eXile
• Gary Brecher
• Matt Taibbi
• John Dolan
• Gonzo Journalism

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.