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Julian Rubinstein is an award-winning journalist, author, producer and adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University.

His book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, published in 2004, is about the Hungarian bank robber and folk hero Attila Ambrus

Attila Ambrus

Attila Ambrus is notorious for committing a string of robberies in Hungary. He was born in a Székely Hungarian family in Fitod, a small village in eastern Transylvania, Romania, right outside Miercurea Ciuc....

. The book won Borders' 2004 "Original Voices" Non-fiction Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award and the 2005 Anthony Award. An audio cabaret recording of the book was a finalist at the 2007 Audie Awards

Audie Awards

The Audie Awards are annually bestowed annually in the USA for outstanding audiobooks. The Audies have been granted by the Audio Publishers Association, a not-for-profit trade organization, since 1996. The nominees are announced each year in January, and the winners are announced at a gala banquet...

for Best Audio Book. The performance stars Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian

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, Demetri Martin

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, Samantha Power

Samantha Power

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, Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart

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, Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames

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, Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips

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, Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss

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, and Tommy Ramone

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. Warner Bros. and Johnny Depp optioned the book for a film.

Rubinstein has written for The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...

, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
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, Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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, Details
Details (magazine)
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, Travel + Leisure
Travel + Leisure
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, Salon
Salon.com
Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

, Outside
Outside (magazine)
Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...

and other publications. His work has been selected for the Best American Crime Writing anthology, The Best American Essays, and twice by The Best American Sports Writing.

He was born in the Bronx and grew up in Denver.

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