Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond is the author of the memoir Searching for John Hughes. His next book, The Sprawl, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2020. He has written for the New York Times, Eater, The Paris Review, Pitchfork, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and many other publications.

All Articles From Jason Diamond

How Prospect Heights Became NYC’s Buzziest Food Neighborhood

The answer: Fausto, Olmsted, MeMe's and a number of other bars and restaurants

The Great American Beer Novel Is Here, and We Talked to the Guy Who Wrote It

J. Ryan Stradal's "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" is a novel about family, Minnesota and light beer

New Orleans Funk Legend Art Neville Dead at 81

Founded the Meters and Neville Brothers

Review: Does Graydon Carter’s New Email Magazine Work?

The subscription-only Air Mail launched over the weekend

“Top Gun 2” Is the Tom Cruise Midlife Crisis Movie We Deserve

The sequel could actually be really good ... or not

Highballs Are the Only Great Summer Whisky Cocktails

Apologies to the Old-Fashioned and Manhattan, which belong to the colder months

Russell Westbrook Traded to Houston Rockets for Chris Paul

The former MVP will be reunited with James Harden

Inside JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Last Days

Timed for the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed the couple and Bessette's sister

Academy Award-Nominated Actor Rip Torn Has Died at 88

The co-star of one of the most lauded American sitcoms ever and beat up Norman Mailer

America’s Wine Country Is Also a Design Wonderland

Napa Valley is full of architectural wonders from different eras

8 Books You Should Read This July

New noir, Dapper Dan's memoir and Colson Whitehead's latest. It's Christmas in July!

Charting the Rise of the Negroni, the Classic Cocktail of the Future

100 years after its creation, the bitter cocktail is having its big moment in the US

Remembering a Hero (and Eating a Few) on the Anthony Bourdain Food Trail

New Jersey's newest landmark celebrates what the Garden State does best: food

The 25 Best Books of the First Half of 2019

Italian noir! Music biographies! Harper Lee! Satire! 2019 has had it all and it isn't even close to done.

Why J.Crew Still Matters

It's a huge company that digs its own holes, but it has helped shape and change men's style over the last decade in immeasurable ways