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John Seabrook          

American journalist and author, writes about technology and popular culture

John Seabrook is an American journalist who writes about technology and popular culture. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993. Seabrook graduated from St. Andrew's School in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, The Village Voice, and the 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.

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'The Song Machine,' by John Seabrook - The New York Times
John Seabrook's well-researched new book about the industry covers the sharp downward slope that followed. The people I knew combed the country looking ...

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