ABOUT - JOHN SEABROOK
WEBJohn Seabrook is the author The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, published by Norton in October, 2015. He is also the author of Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture, which was published in 2000, and Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace, which was published in 1997, and Flash of …
JOHN SEABROOK
WEBTraveling from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, John Seabrook tells a story of what happens when an industry is catastrophically disrupted—spurring innovation, competition, intense greed, and seductive new products.
NEWS | JOHN SEABROOK
WEBNew Yorker writer John Seabrook (Flash of Genius) provides an eminently readable and important inside look at how the pop music industry developed strategies to manufacture no-fail hit songs. Seabrook’s in-depth interviews with an army of songwriters, producers, performers and others make for series of profiles that document a revolution in ...
My Father’s Closet | JOHN SEABROOK
WEBMar 16, 1998 · My Father’s Closet. The author reveals why he rejected a wardrobe worthy of the Duke of Windsor. From The New Yorker. March 16, 1998. When I think about my father’s long and eventful life, my mind’s eye fills up with his silhouette at different times over the years, as defined by his beautifully tailored Savile Row suits.
CONTACT - JOHN SEABROOK
WEBAGENT CONTACT. The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc. 381 Park Avenue South, Suite 428. New York, New York 10016. Tel: (212) 924-6269. Fax: (212) 725-5275. Email The Joy Harris Literary Agency. PUBLICITY CONTACT. Alice Rha, Senior Publicist.
My First Flame | JOHN SEABROOK
WEBFrom The New Yorker. June 6, 1994. I got flamed for the first time a couple of months ago. To flame, according to “Que’s Computer User’s Dictionary,” is “to lose one’s self-control and write a message that uses derogatory, obscene, or inappropriate language.”.
BOOKS | JOHN SEABROOK
WEBTraveling from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, John Seabrook tells a story of what happens when an industry is catastrophically disrupted—spurring innovation, competition, intense greed, and seductive new products.
The Spinach King - JOHN SEABROOK
WEBFeb 20, 1995 · The Spinach King. At a Seabrook Farms reunion, confronting painful family histories became a shared experience for the descendants of Japanese war internees and the heirs of C. F. Seabrook–“the Henry Ford of agriculture,” and the author’s grandfather. From The New Yorker. February 20, 1995. The town of Seabrook is in a part of South ...
STORIES - JOHN SEABROOK
WEBStories. Here is a selection of my long form articles, most of them published in the New Yorker over the last 25 years. The subjects vary widely, but invention, design, music, and money are through lines, and the often fraught relationship between creativity and commerce is the major theme. Invisible Gold. What a contemporary gold rush looks like.
Feel No Pain - JOHN SEABROOK
WEBJul 22, 1996 · Feel No Pain. Rowing’s unlikely hero has dedicated his life to the most gruelling sport. From The New Yorker July 22, 1996. Early one morning in June, I rode a bike along the towpath next to the Thames, watching the three-time gold-medallist Steven Redgrave and his partner, Matthew Pinsent, row up and down the Henley Reach, the most famous stretch of water in the rowing world.