About 15 years ago, Guy Lawson had lunch in New York with his editors at Rolling Stone. He was tired of covering the drug wars in Mexico, and wanted to know what else they might be interested in.
“We want you to do stories about young people doing fucked-up things,” he was told.
The conversation led to an article about two stoner arms dealers who became entangled in corruption in Albania, which became a book and then the 2016 movie “War Dogs,” starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.
“It was a great story,” Lawson says.
Related Stories
It also got him
→ Continue reading at Variety
