Getting Hired
GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
By John Bowe
There's no one freelance writer John Bowe isn't comfortable interviewing. "I slept outdoors for three years while traveling around the world," he says proudly, "so there's no one who is too weird or unusual or unapproachable for me."
Bowe is nothing if not prolific. He has written articles, essays, interviews, and comedic pieces for Talk, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, POV, Bomb, Interior Design, and Blue. He is a frequent contributor to Word an online magazine The New York Times has called "a kind of hip, low-fi New Yorker magazine for a new generation." In between appearances on NPR's "This American Life," Bowe found time to cowrite the feature film, Basquiat and is currently at work on a screenplay about two cops in Minneapolis.
After getting back from his world tour, Bowe traveled across America to talk to people about their jobs for the recently released book, Gig, an expanded version of an ongoing series that began on Word. According to fellow writer Susan Faludi, Gig is "chockablock with compelling, vivid mini-memoirs."