John Seabrook

Last updated

John Seabrook is an American writer.

Seabrook at the 7 Moscow International Book Festival, 2012 Seabrook John 7FILMos2012 03.JPG
Seabrook at the 7 Moscow International Book Festival, 2012

He graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's , Vanity Fair , GQ , The Nation , The Village Voice , and the Christian Science Monitor . To date, he has published four books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker . A feature film based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 3, 2008. His new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory was published in October, 2015.

Contents

Bibliography

Books

Essays and reporting

Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work

Nobrow
The song machine

———————

Notes
  1. YouTube.
  2. Nolan Bushnell.
  3. Michael Nesmith.
  4. Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.
  5. Online version is titled "Game night with Laura Marling".
  6. Title in the online table of contents is "Beyond 'Uptown Funk'".
  7. Online version is titled "Behind the cellar door".
  8. Online version is titled "Randy Newman contemplates the universe".
  9. Online version is titled "Puerto Rico's Ortiz brothers light up horse racing".
  10. Online version is titled "Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?".
  11. Online version is titled "An ex-drinker’s search for a sober buzz".
  12. For comparison, see Peter Swirski's textbook on nobrow taste culture in America, From Lowbrow to Nobrow.

Notes


    Related Research Articles

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeffrey Toobin</span> American lawyer and author

    Jeffrey Ross Toobin is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and legal analyst for CNN.

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Ariel Levy (writer)</span> American writer (born 1974)

    Ariel Levy is an American staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the books The Rules Do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, and The New York Times. Levy was named one of the "Forty Under 40" most influential out individuals in the June/July 2009 issue of The Advocate.

    William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing.

    Calvin Tomkins is an American author and art critic for The New Yorker magazine.

    Dexter Price Filkins is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of his generation". He currently writes for The New Yorker.

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Kolbert</span> American journalist, author, and scholar

    Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.

    Margaret Talbot is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. She is the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 article of The New Yorker and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century. She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, By the Light of Burning Dreams.

    A list of the works by or about music critic Alex Ross.

    List of works by or about David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker.

    A list of the published works of Ian Frazier, American writer.

    A list of the published work of Adam Gopnik, American writer and editor.

    A list of works by or about Anthony Lane, British journalist and film critic.

    List of the published work of Dana Goodyear, American journalist and poet.

    Mark Jay Singer is an American journalist and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

    List of works by or about American film critic Richard Brody.

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Jill Lepore bibliography</span>

    A list of works by or about Jill Lepore, American historian.

    Rebecca Mead is an English writer and journalist.

    Lauren Zurn Collins is an American journalist who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language (2016).

    List of works by or about Steve Coll, American journalist.

    List of works by or about Kelefa Sanneh, American journalist and music critic.