John Seabrook
John Seabrook is an American writer.
He graduated from
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.
- "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
- 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.