Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for Grantland and the author of Idiot America. He writes regularly for Esquire, is the lead writer for Esquire.com's Politics blog, and is a frequent guest on NPR.
Two days before Thanksgiving in 1978, I got fired from the only reporting job I'd ever had. For two years, I had been virtually the entire editorial s...
It was an unusual evening in the Eliot Lounge, a dearly departed home for wayward journos on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. It was not an overly unu...
