John Seabrook

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.

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]

• 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]

• "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]

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

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