Mark Ebner doesn't write essays. He compiles case files — crime investigations that started as magazine pieces, kept pushing past the deadline, and ended up between hard covers because readers demand all of the reporting.
Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity
"A terrific book — both snappy and snappish."— Wall Street Journal
Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood
An anatomy of the 2000s celebrity-industrial complex — the publicists, fixers, leaked videos, and offshore companies that turned a hotel heiress into a monetizable accident. Mark consulted on Dateline NBC's coverage of the same material.
One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico
A first-person account of seven months of negotiation with cartel kidnappers in central Mexico, told by the wife of the man held in a 5x5 box. Adapted as a Lifetime original feature in 2012.
Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out
Before he was Hollywood Interrupted, Mark was the writer Harry Knowles called when he wanted somebody to put the Aint-It-Cool-News voice between hard covers. The result is part memoir, part shadow industry exposé, part paean to the bootleg cinema underground of the late '90s.
Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty
The pool boy who tore down Liberty University's first family, in his own words. Mark co-wrote Granda's account of the seven-year relationship with the Falwells and the unraveling of an evangelical dynasty.
Four Decades of Battling the World's Most Destructive Cults
Rick Alan Ross has pulled people out of Scientology, NXIVM, the Branch Davidians, and the People's Temple offshoots for forty years. Mark wrote it because somebody asked him to write a Scientology piece in 1996 and he never quite stopped.
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