Jim Nelson is the editor-in-chief of GQ.

“One of the things that was initially a challenge was we would all think of ‘the print side’ and ‘the digital side.’ Now what we all think about is, ‘Okay, stop saying GQ.com and GQ the print edition. It’s just GQ!’ And once you cross that line, you don’t ever want to go back to it. I can’t imagine. The job has changed so much, even in the last three years, that when I look back, I think, ‘God, I was just such a quaint little fucker.’”

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[14:10] "Shipping Out" (David Foster Wallace • Harper’s Magazine • Jan 1996)
[14:15] "Ticket to the Fair" (David Foster Wallace • Harper’s Magazine • July 1994)
[19:15] Pineapple Street Media
[21:30] "The AIDS Deniers" (GQ • June 2017)
[28:35] "Rick Santorum Is Straight" (Robert Draper • GQ • Aug 2003)
[32:35] GQ on Snapchat Discover
[33:55] GQ on Instagram
[43:25] "Upon This Rock" (John Jeremiah Sullivan • GQ • Jan 2004)
[44:50] "The Incredible Buddha Boy" (George Saunders • GQ • May 2006)
[45:25] "Traffic" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • March 2009)
[45:25] "Underworld" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • May 2007)
[45:50] "Have You Heard the One About President Joe Biden?" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • July 2013)
[45:40] "Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns?" (Jeanne Marie Laskas • GQ • Aug 2016)
[45:45] "The Old Man at Burning Man" (Wells Tower • GQ • Aug 2015)
[45:50] "Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi" (Adam Johnson • GQ • June 2013)
[45:55] "No Exit" (Sean Flynn • GQ • Sept 2013)
[45:05] "18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio" (Chris Heath • GQ • Feb 2012)
[45:15] "Searching for Sugar Daddies" (Taffy Brodesser-Akner • GQ • Aug 2015)
[45:15] "The Suicide Catcher" (Mike Paterniti • GQ • Aug 2010)
[45:15] "The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror" (Chris Heath • GQ • Aug 2016)
[50:45] "The Untold Story of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination" (Doug Bock Clark • GQ • Sep 2017)
[52:45] "I Surrendered My Wardrobe" (Sean Hotchkiss • GQ • Dec 2016)
[54:45] "The Blind Faith of Juan Jose Padilla, the One-Eyed Matador" (Karen Russell • GQ • Oct 2012)
[55:00] Fly Me (Daniel Riley • Hachette • 2017)
[56:15] "Why Me?" (Elizabeth Gilbert • GQ • April 2002)