John Seabrook

Seabrook at the 7 Moscow International Book Festival, 2012

John Seabrook is an American journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993.

Seabrook 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.

Bibliography

Books

• Deeper : my two-year odyssey in cyberspace. Touchstone Books. 1997.
• Nobrow : the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture. Methuen. 2000.
• Flash of genius and other true stories of invention. St. Martin's Griffin. 2008.
• The song machine : inside the hit factory. W. W. Norton & Company. 2015.

Essays and reporting

• "E-mail from Bill". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. January 10, 1994. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "It came from Hollywood". Dept. of Special Effects. The New Yorker. December 1, 2003.
• "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.
• "Re-Start". The Talk of the Town: Fountain of Youth Dept. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 20. January 30, 2012. Subject: Nolan Bushnell.
• "Glass Half Full". The Talk of the Town: The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 42. December 3, 2012. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
• "Tarrytown boy". The Talk of the Town. Comeback Dept. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 23. January 28, 2013. Retrieved 2015-04-07. Tim Maia.
• "Caloric sounds". Talk of the Town. Have You Heard This One?. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 18, 20. March 4, 2013. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
• "The Beach Builders". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 89 (21): 42–51. July 22, 2013. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
• "A dog's life". The Talk of the Town. Here to There Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 25. September 30, 2013. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
• "Names". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Hoopla. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 20, 22. February 3, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Hey, hey". The Talk of the Town. Never Say Never. The New Yorker. 90 (12): 27. May 12, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Free". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 90 (46): 21. February 2, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The mixologist : how Mike Will made it". Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (21): 34–42. July 11–18, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "My father's cellar : a lifetime of drinking". Personal History. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 22–28. January 23, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "High ceilings". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 17–18. August 21, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "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. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work

Nobrow

• Foster, Hal (21 September 2000). "Slumming with rappers at the Roxy". London Review of Books. 22 (18): 16–18. Retrieved 2015-05-06. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)

The song machine

• Nathaniel Rich. "Hit Charade". The Atlantic (October 2015). Retrieved 24 September 2015.

External links

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• Official Publisher's page for John Seabrook
• Webpages dedicated to John Seabrook
• Contributions to The New Yorker