Seabrook at the 7 Moscow International Book Festival, 2012

John M. Seabrook Jr. (born January 17, 1959) is an American writer and journalist. He has worked for The New Yorker weekly magazine for many years, and has five published books.

Biography

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., Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor.[citation needed] To date, he has published five books besides contributing numerous articles to The New Yorker. A feature film by Marc Abraham based on his 2008 book Flash of Genius was released on October 2008, starring Greg Kinnear. His latest book, The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty was published in 2025.

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.
  • The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. W. W. Norton & Company. 2025. ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6.

Essays and reporting

  • . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. January 10, 1994.
  • . Dept. of Special Effects. The New Yorker. December 1, 2003.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Sixty Seconds. The New Yorker. 84 (35): 46, 48. November 3, 2008. Archived from on November 6, 2008.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Visitations. The New Yorker. 86 (31): 38. October 11, 2010.
  • . Annals of Technology. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 24–30. January 16, 2012. from the original on February 1, 2012.
  • . The Talk of the Town: Fountain of Youth Dept. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 20. January 30, 2012. Archived from on April 26, 2012.
  • . The Talk of the Town: The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 42. December 3, 2012. from the original on October 20, 2014.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Comeback Dept. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 23. January 28, 2013. Tim Maia.
  • . Talk of the Town. Have You Heard This One?. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 18, 20. March 4, 2013.
  • . Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 89 (21): 42–51. July 22, 2013.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Here to There Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 25. September 30, 2013.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Hoopla. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 20, 22. February 3, 2014.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Never Say Never. The New Yorker. 90 (12): 27. May 12, 2014.
  • . The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 90 (46): 21. February 2, 2015.
  • . The Talk of the Town. Game Night. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 33. April 20, 2015.
  • . The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 91 (14): 24–25. May 25, 2015.
  • . Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (21): 34–42. July 11–18, 2016.
  • . Personal History. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 22–28. January 23, 2017.
  • . The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 17–18. August 21, 2017.
  • . The Sporting Scene. The New Yorker. 93 (39): 38–45. December 4, 2017.
  • . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 52–63. October 14, 2019.
  • . American Chronicles. The New Yorker. 97 (30): 30–36. September 27, 2021.
  • Annals of Disaster. The New Yorker. 101 (21): 12-18. July 28, 2025.

Critical studies and reviews of Seabrook's work

Nobrow

The song machine

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Notes

External links

  • to The New Yorker