Andrew Marantz

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Andrew Marantz
Born (1984-09-26) September 26, 1984 (age 39)
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Andrew Marantz (born September 26, 1984) is an American author and journalist who writes for The New Yorker . [1] [2] [3]

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Life

From 2002 to 2006 Marantz was an undergraduate at Brown University, receiving a bachelor's degree in religion and religious studies. From 2009 to 2011 he was a graduate student at New York University, receiving a master's degree in journalism.

He is a staff writer for The New Yorker , contributing to the magazine since 2011. [4]

In 2019 he published his book, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, [3] [5] The edition of the book published by London's Picador is entitled Antisocial: How Extremists Broke America. [6] In 2020, Project Syndicate chose it as one of the best reads of 2020, finding it "one of the best recent accounts of how social media has come to dominate political discourse in the United States." [7]

Personal life

In October 2013 Marantz married the lawyer Sarah Lustbader. They have a son, Gideon Caleb Marantz, born 2017. [8]

Andrew Marantz's father is the physician Paul R. Marantz. [9] [10]

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