John Seabrook
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John M. Seabrook Jr. (born January 17, 1959)[1] is an American writer and journalist. He has worked for The New Yorker weekly magazine for many years,[2] and has four published books.
Biography
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Seabrook graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford.[citation needed]
He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Manhattan, inc.,[3] Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor.[citation needed] To date, he has published four books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker.[4] A feature film by Marc Abraham based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 2008, starring Greg Kinnear.[5] His new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory was published in October, 2015.[6]
Bibliography
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Books
[edit]- Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace. Touchstone Books. 1997.[7][8]
- Nobrow: the Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture. Methuen. 2000.[9]
- Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention. St. Martin's Griffin. 2008.[10]
- The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. W. W. Norton & Company. 2015.[6]
Essays and reporting
[edit]- "E-mail from Bill". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. January 10, 1994.
- "It came from Hollywood". Dept. of Special Effects. The New Yorker. December 1, 2003.
- "Couch potato politics". The Talk of the Town. Sixty Seconds. The New Yorker. 84 (35): 46, 48. November 3, 2008.
- "Peekers". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Visitations. The New Yorker. 86 (31): 38. October 11, 2010.
- "Streaming dreams". Annals of Technology. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 24–30. January 16, 2012.[a]
- "Re-start". The Talk of the Town: Fountain of Youth Dept. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 20. January 30, 2012.[b]
- "Glass half full". The Talk of the Town: The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 42. December 3, 2012.
- "Tarrytown boy". The Talk of the Town. Comeback Dept. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 23. January 28, 2013. Tim Maia.
- "Caloric sounds". Talk of the Town. Have You Heard This One?. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 18, 20. March 4, 2013.
- "The Beach Builders". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 89 (21): 42–51. July 22, 2013.
- "A dog's life". The Talk of the Town. Here to There Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 25. September 30, 2013.
- "Names". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Hoopla. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 20, 22. February 3, 2014.
- "Hey, hey". The Talk of the Town. Never Say Never. The New Yorker. 90 (12): 27. May 12, 2014.[c]
- "Free". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 90 (46): 21. February 2, 2015.[d]
- "Full reverb". The Talk of the Town. Game Night. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 33. April 20, 2015.[e]
- "Third Act". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 91 (14): 24–25. May 25, 2015.[f]
- "The mixologist : how Mike Will made it". Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (21): 34–42. July 11–18, 2016.
- "My father's cellar : a lifetime of drinking". Personal History. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 22–28. January 23, 2017.[g]
- "High ceilings". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 17–18. August 21, 2017.[h]
- "Top jocks : Puerto Rico's Ortiz brothers are lighting up New York's racetracks". The Sporting Scene. The New Yorker. 93 (39): 38–45. December 4, 2017.[i]
- "The Next Word". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 52–63. October 14, 2019.[j]
- "Zero-proof therapy : can an ex-drinker return to the bar if non-alcoholic beer is on tap?". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. 97 (30): 30–36. September 27, 2021.[k]
Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work
[edit]- Nobrow
- Foster, Hal (21 September 2000). "Slumming with rappers at the Roxy". London Review of Books. 22 (18): 16–18. Retrieved 2015-05-06.[l]
- The song machine
- Nathaniel Rich. "Hit Charade". The Atlantic (October 2015). Retrieved 24 September 2015.
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- Notes
- ^ YouTube.
- ^ Nolan Bushnell.
- ^ Michael Nesmith.
- ^ Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq.
- ^ Online version is titled "Game night with Laura Marling".
- ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Beyond 'Uptown Funk'".
- ^ Online version is titled "Behind the cellar door".
- ^ Online version is titled "Randy Newman contemplates the universe".
- ^ Online version is titled "Puerto Rico's Ortiz brothers light up horse racing".
- ^ Online version is titled "Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?".
- ^ Online version is titled "An ex-drinker’s search for a sober buzz".
- ^ For comparison, see Peter Swirski's textbook on nobrow taste culture in America, From Lowbrow to Nobrow.
References
[edit]- ^ "Seabrook, John". Virtual International Authority File.
- ^ Kurutz, Steven (2015-11-17). "New Yorker Staffers (and Their Boss, David Remnick) Just Want to Rock". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Carmody, Deirdre (1990-06-22). "Like the 80's, Manhattan,inc. Ends". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Heffernan, Virginia (2008-01-13). "Ancestral Allure". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Stirland, Sarah Lai. "Book Review: 'Flash of Genius' Tells Quirky Stories of Invention". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ a b Touré (2015-10-16). "'The Song Machine,' by John Seabrook". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (1997-02-13). "Getting Caught in the Web". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Bennahum, David S. (1997-02-16). "'I Got E-Mail From Bill!'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ Royte, Elizabeth (2005-10-23). "Publish and Perish". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ "Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention John Seabrook. St. Martin's Griffin, $14.95 (356pp) ISBN 978-0-312-53572-8". Publishers Weekly. September 1, 2008.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Official Publisher's page for John Seabrook
- Webpages dedicated to John Seabrook
- Contributions to The New Yorker
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