About Going Postal

The documentary and the book Going Postal look at the high school, campus and workplace shootings which have cast a shadow over American society over the past 20 years and have again hit the headlines with such devastating consequences. Ten years on from the Columbine shootings, the film looks at five shootings, and talks to experts including Mark Ames, author of Going Postal, and Professor Katherine Newman, a leading sociologist from Princeton University, to build up a picture of how and why this violence occurs. The stories of the different shootings are woven together with a vein of images drawn from American gun culture and from the immediate locales where the shootings occurred. Going Postal the documentary is a Blakeway production for the BBC.

About Mark Ames

Mark Ames is the founding editor of "The eXile," a Moscow-based English-language newspaper and web magazine, co-author of the book The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia with Matt Taibbi, and author of V Rossiu s Lubovyu, a collection of translated columns published in Russia. He is a regular contributor to The New York Press and has been published in the Nation, Playboy, The San Jose Mercury News, Metro Silicon Valley, several Russian newspapers including Kommersant and Limonka, and recently started a regular column in The Guardian. He has lived in Russia for most of the last ten years. more

Praise

'Caustic, and funny...a must-read'- Rolling Stone on Mark Ames' The eXile.

'Fascinating' - Forbes Magazine

“Mark, I am sitting in a train reading your book and just wanted to tell you I find it great, not good, great. I will do everything I can to make you fucking famous.” Michalis Pantelouris, Editor in Chief, Red Bull magazine