Chris Nieratko is the most important American writer of the past twenty minutes. Aside from pioneering the confrontational style of journalism where the reporter threatens physical harm onto the interviewee (ask Spike Jonze what happened with Ronnie James Dio), Nieratko is also widely renowned as being a handsome gentleman.
He has spent the past ten years as an editor for Larry Flynt’s controversial skateboarding magazine, Big Brother. He has written for nearly any publication that matters from Disney Adventures to Hustler, Interview to Vibe, XXL to Paper, and a bunch of others he doesn’t remember whoring himself out to. He has a monthly column in the oddity magazine Bizarre and the hipster bible. Vice. which spawned his first book, Skinema. Nieratko also owns a skateboard shop in Sayreville, NJ (home of Bon Jovi), and a boutique in New Brunswick, NJ. He had been trying to get his wife pregnant for over a year before giving up and getting a puppy.
Boogie was born in Serbia and emigrated to the United States in 1998. The author of It’s All Good, Boogie, and Belgrade Belongs to Me (powerHouse Books, 2006, 2007, and 2008), his work has appeared in publications including Time, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vibe, and Maxim, among others. His clients include Nike, Lee Jeans, Element Skateboards, and Shellac. Boogie lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
