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bIO
Evan McGarvey is a writer and the co-author of 2pac vs. Biggie: An Illustrated History of Rap’s Greatest Battle(Voyageur). His essays, journalism and poetry have appeared in outlets from The New Republic to VICE Sports. He’s written about Japanese wrestling, teaching Division I athletes, forgotten places in Florida, parenting and television. Outside of writing, he has worked as a high-school teacher, a public health field worker, and as a tabloid fact checker. He lives in Texas with his family and is at work on a novel.
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SELECTED WORK
JOURNALISM & CRITICISM
In The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson Washes Up On Familiar Shores
LA Review of Books
The Cogs of War: 'Lazarus' and The Limits of Dystopia
LA Review of Books
The Rehabilitation of Kurt Angle
Slate
New Japan Wrestling Finally Comes To America
VICE Sports
The Italian Job: How Watford, A Small English Soccer Club, is Becoming a Large English Soccer Club
VICE Sports
Can The WWE Engineer Another Hulk Hogan?
The New Republic
That One Time David Cronenberg and Stephen King Accidentally Predicted Donald Trump
Outline
Pete Rock: NY's Finest
Pitchfork
DJ Drama: Gangsta Grillz: The Album
Pitchfork
Deadalus: Love To Make Music To
Pitchfork
Project Pat: Walkin' Bank Roll
Pitchfork
ESSAYS
When My Son Started To Wheeze
Fatherly
Fuel & Prayer: A Tribute to Chester Bennington of Linkin Park
Passion of the Weiss
poeTRY
Pineapple Graves, Yamato Colony, Boca Raton
Crazy Horse Magazine, 2016 Lynda Hull Award Finalist
Tweet Balzano's Restaurant
Crab Orchard Review
Two Poems
Slush Pile
The Comedienne
Stirring
Five Poems From The Golden Horde Crosses The Endless Plain of Fortune
Asymptote Journal
In The Louvre, Armor
Michigan Quarterly Review
America's Profound Connection To The Mongols Of Iran
Michigan Quarterly Review
2PAC VS BIGGIE
An illustrated history of rap's greatest battle
“When Weiss and McGarvey dissect the lyrics, you get a fresh approach to previously aired perceptions… like two rappers collaborating on a track, Weiss and McGarvey trade licks and details about the rappers’ styles, words, messages, lives and afterlives like pros. Their level of research comes across on nearly every page and the fact that they’re unearthing new details and painting new pictures of a story that everyone thought had already run its course is commendable.”
— The Irish Times
CONTACT
To contact Evan directly, please use the form provided, or reach out to him via email at evanmcgarvey@gmail.com