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.^[1]

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

• Seabrook, John (1997). Deeper: my two-year odyssey in cyberspace. Touchstone Books.
• — (2000). Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture. Methuen Publishing.
• — (2008). Flash of Genius and Other True Stories of Invention. St. Martin's Griffin.
• — (2015). The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. W. W. Norton & Company.^[2]

Essays and reporting

• Seabrook, John (January 10, 1994). "E-mail from Bill". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker.
• — (December 1, 2003). "It Came From Hollywood" (PDF). The New Yorker: 54.
• — (October 11, 2010). "Peekers". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Visitations. The New Yorker. 86 (31): 38.
• — (January 16, 2012). "Streaming dreams". Annals of Technology. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 24–30. Retrieved 10 October 2014. Subject: YouTube.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Re-Start". The Talk of the Town: Fountain of Youth Dept. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 20. Subject: Nolan Bushnell.
• — (December 3, 2012). "Glass Half Full". The Talk of the Town: The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 42. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
• — (January 28, 2013). "Tarrytown boy". The Talk of the Town. Comeback Dept. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 23. Retrieved 2015-04-07. Tim Maia.
• — (March 4, 2013). "Caloric sounds". Talk of the Town. Have You Heard This One?. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 18, 20. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
• — (July 22, 2013). "The Beach Builders". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 89 (21): 42–51. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
• — (September 30, 2013). "A dog's life". The Talk of the Town. Here to There Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 25. Retrieved 2015-02-09.

Critical studies and reviews

• Foster, Hal (21 September 2000). "Slumming with rappers at the Roxy". London Review of Books. 22 (18): 16–18. Retrieved 2015-05-06. Review of Nobrow.^[3]

References

1. "Contributors: John Seabrook". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
2. Nathaniel Rich. "Hit Charade". The Atlantic (October 2015). Retrieved 24 September 2015.
3. For comparison, see Peter Swirski's textbook on nobrow taste culture in America, From Lowbrow to Nobrow.

External links

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