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Josh Karp (born October 22, 1966) is a journalist and author. He lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their four sons.

A journalist, writer and film producer. His first book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, won best biography at both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Midwest Book Awards in 2006. It was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Will Forte, for Netflix in 2018. He is also the author of Straight Down the Middle: Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing and Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind. [1]

Karp served as moderator of a panel discussion on The Other Side of the Wind at the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, in February 2015. [2]

He was a producer on the Morgan Neville documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead , which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August 2018. [3]

Karp's writing has appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-TimesandNewsweek, among others. [4] [5]

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