Nick Paumgarten

Nick Paumgarten has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2005. Prior to that, he spent five years as an editor and writer at the magazine. He has covered a wide range of subjects, including politics, finance, art, music, food, technology, mountaineering, sports-talk radio, elevators, boxer-bartenders, commuters, and canoes. His work has also appeared in Outside, GQ, Bon Appetit, Men’s Vogue, Powder, the Adventure Journal, and The Sewanee Review. He was an editor and reporter at the New York Observer from 1995-2000. He lives with his wife Siv in Manhattan.