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Joe Bernstein

The Fascinating Origins of Greyhound Racing

By: Michael LaPointe   |   The Paris Review   |   Mar 2020
'But as one writer said, “no one had the slightest idea of how to race dogs other than by turning them loose in a large pen to chase wild rabbits."'
Joe Bernstein

Dice Roll: Gambling on the High Seas

By: Michael LaPointe   |   The Paris Review   |   May 2019
"It was Tony Cornero, “commodore of the gambling fleet” and bane of Warren’s existence. He’d just initiated an eight-day standoff that would come to be known as the Battle of Santa Monica Bay."