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John Seabrook
John Seabrook has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and became a staff writer in 1993. Seabrook has addressed a range of issues, including technology, genealogy, design, and natural history.
Seabrook is 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. His most recent book is “Flash of Genius, And Other True Stories of Invention,” published in 2008.
Before joining the magazine, Seabrook was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Manhattan Inc. magazine.
Seabrook lives in New York City.
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Sep 30, 2013
Here to There Dept.
A Dog’s Life
Dogs see a limited part of the color spectrum, and the blue-beige painted pavement of the new Tribeca Dog Run is designed to appear especially vivid to a dog. On a recent Friday morning, following Shovels & Rope’s joyous show at Webster Hall, Townes van Zandt, the band’s dog, headed there with his owners to have his visual cortex blown.
Sep 23, 2013
Chanteuse
Who’s the Man?
The best song on Neko Case’s new album is called “Man.” It’s a punk-rock feminist cri du coeur. “I’m a man, you’ll have to deal with me, my proxy is mine,” she sings. “You didn’t know what a man was until I showed you.”
September 13, 2013
Blog: News Desk
Fire on the Boardwalk
Assessing the destruction after a fire rips through Seaside Park on the Jersey Shore.
Jul 22, 2013
Our Local Correspondents
The Beach Builders
As America’s infatuation with the beach grew, so did the value of proximity to it. The problem is that beaches and barrier islands aren’t permanent. They move as wind and water reshape them. Since 1970, the Army Corps of Engineers has nourished beaches, mostly on the East Coast, four hundred and sixty-nine times. Earlier this year, Congress gave the Corps $5.3 billion to rebuild “areas affected by Sandy,” much more than it had spent on beaches since nourishment began.
May 20, 2013
Dept. of Technology
Network Insecurity
The Department of Homeland Security reported a hundred and ninety-eight cyber attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure in fiscal year 2012; there were just nine attacks in 2009. These included the penetration of twenty-three oil and natural-gas pipeline operators and six attacks on nuclear power plants. Last year, hackers also broke into an unclassified network in the White House Military Office. In all these cases, the intruders seemed more interested in snooping than in sabotage, though they could return, with more sinister intentions.
Mar 04, 2013
Have You Heard This One?
Caloric Sounds
Talk story about the friendship between Bruce Ratner and Itzhak Perlman. They meet at Lansky’s Old World Deli to talk about a concert of cantorial music at the Barclays Center, in which Perlman is performing…
Jan 28, 2013
Comeback Dept.
Tarrytown Boy
Talk story about Tim Maia, the Brazilian musician, and Allen Thayer, the superfan who tracked down his lost recording…
Dec 17, 2012
The Musical Life
Queen Bee
Talk story about Ronnie Spector, of the Ronettes, and her musical career. She is currently working on a one-woman show, “Beyond the Beehive…
Dec 03, 2012
The Musical Life
Glass Half Full
Talk story about the singer-songwriter Aimee Man, who was at the Rubin Museum, in Chelsea, talking with Neil LaBute about how to be happy…
November 14, 2012
Blog: News Desk
Petraeus and the Cloud
The law doesn’t extend the same level of protection to e-mail stored in the cloud—where most Gmail resides—as it does to e-mail stored on your hard drive. Could a revamped Electronic Communications Privacy Act have saved David Petraeus from scandal?
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