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Michael Thomsen

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Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New Yorker, Slate, Washington Post, Forbes, Vanity Fair, New Republic, Atlantic, Kill Screen, Paris Review Daily, Al Jazeera America, New Inquiry, Nation, Complex, Daily Beast, Bookforum, Adult, Real Life and Guernica.

He is the author of Hollywood Unending, a Kindle Single about film financing in the 21st Century, and contributed an essay on urban sprawl to City by City: Dispatches From the American Metropolis, which was selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Publisher’s Weekly.

Michael was also a games correspondent for the web edition ABC World News with Charlie Gibson.

Books by Michael Thomsen

Cage Kings

A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as 'human cockfighting' - more violence than sport - to a global pop culture phenomenon.

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