Alex Halberstadt
Alex Halberstadt is an American nonfiction writer and journalist.
He grew up in Moscow and in 1980 came to the United States, where he and his family settled in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School, Oberlin College and Columbia University.
Career
Halberstadt’s writing has appeared in
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union, his family memoir, was named a
Halberstadt's critically acclaimed biography, Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus, was named a
Halberstadt’s magazine writing was anthologized in Best Food Writing 2014 and Best American Food Writing 2018. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated for a
Bibliography
Books
Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. Da Capo Press. 2007.
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union Random House. 2020.
Essays and reporting
- "The Motorcycle Diarist". New York Magazine. November 25, 2007.
- "'Cooking Isn't Creative, and It Isn't Easy'". The New York Times Magazine. October 11, 2012.
- "The Transformational Power of the Right Spice". The New York Times Magazine. April 4, 2013.
- "Next Stage: Kim Gordon Goes Solo". The New Yorker. June 3, 2013.
- "Steven Grasse: Punk-Rock Prince of Small-Batch Spirits". Food & Wine. October 3, 2013.
- "Dominique Ansel: The Leading Light of Pastry". Food & Wine. January 16, 2014.
- "Zoo Animals and Their Discontents". The New York Times Magazine. July 3, 2014.
- "A Prisoner's Reading List". The New Yorker. July 7, 2014.
- "Out of the Woods". The New York Times Magazine. August 6, 2015.
- "Letter of Recommendation: Cheddar and Sour Cream Ruffles". The New York Times Magazine. August 17, 2016.
- "Can Kyoto's Buddhist Cuisine Teach Us All To Eat Better?". Saveur. November 29, 2017.
- "Letter of Recommendation: Rodney Dangerfield". The New York Times Magazine. January 26, 2018.
- "October's Child: The Year I Left the Soviet Union". The New Yorker. April 5, 2020.
- "Unforeseen Calamities". MoMA Magazine. May 22, 2020.
References
- ^ "Ben Folds rocks the suburbs with adult pop songs". The Australian.