Jayson Buford, born and raised in New York, is a writer for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, Pitchfork, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Passion of the Weiss. Go Knicks.

Jayson Buford

Actual Real Life: On Curtis Hanson’s “8 Mile”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Treading Water

LARB Lit

Jayson Buford, born and raised in New York, is a writer for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, Pitchfork, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Passion of the Weiss. Go Knicks.

Jayson Buford

Articles

Actual Real Life: On Curtis Hanson’s “8 Mile”

Treading Water