Josh Karp

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Josh Karp (born October 22, 1966) is a journalist and author. He lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons.

A journalist, writer and film producer. His first book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, won best biography at both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Midwest Book Awards in 2006. It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Will Forte, for Netflix in 2018. He is also the author of Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing and Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind.[1]

Karp served as moderator of a panel discussion on The Other Side of the Wind at the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in February 2015.[2]

He was a producer on the Morgan Neville documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018.[3]

Karp's writing has appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and Newsweek, among others.[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Josh Karp | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  2. ^ "Sedona Eye » Sedona Film Festival Honors Orson Welles". Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  3. ^ "Tremolo Productions | Film | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead". Tremolo Productions. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  4. ^ "Josh Karp | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  5. ^ "Straight Down the Middle - University of Nebraska Press". Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2019-01-20.

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