Margaret Talbot
Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer.[1] She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012).[2]
Contents
1 Life
2 Awards
3 Bibliography
3.1 Essays and reporting
3.2 Anthologies
3.3 Book reviews
4 Notes
5 External links
Life
She is a staff writer at The New Yorker.[3] She has also written for The New Republic,[4]The New York Times Magazine,[5] and The Atlantic Monthly.[6] and was a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest".[7][8]
Her first book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century, was published in November 2012 by Riverhead.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.[9] .
Awards
- 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography
Essays and reporting
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— (February 24, 2002). "Girls just want to be mean". Magazine. The New York Times.
— (March 30, 2003). "A woman's work?". Magazine. The New York Times.
— (November 3, 2008). "Red sex, Blue sex". Dept. of Disputation. The New Yorker.
— (April 27, 2009). "Brain gain : the underground world of 'neuroenhancing' drugs". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker.
— (January 2, 2012). "Stumptown Girl". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 87 (42): 24–29.
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— (April 16, 2012). "Girls will be Girls". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 39–40.
Lena Dunham's Girls.
— (March 18, 2013). "About a boy : transgender surgery at sixteen". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (5): 56–65.
— (April 15, 2013). "Shots in the dark". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (9): 21–22.
— (May 13, 2013). "Game change". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 21–22.
— (October 21, 2013). "Gone girl : the extraordinary resilience of Elizabeth Smart". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 32–38.
— (October 28, 2013). "Home movies : Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur". Profiles. The New Yorker. 89 (34): 50–59.
— (February 16, 2015). "Not immune". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (1): 19–20. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
— (December 19–26, 2016). "Women in the White House". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (42): 43–44.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
Talbot, Margaret & Philip Montgomery (October 30, 2017). "Faces of an epidemic : in Montgomery County, Ohio, opiod addiction permeates everyday life". Portfolio. The New Yorker. 93 (34): 50–59.
[11]
— (April 2, 2018). "Dirty politics : Scott Pruitt's E.P.A. is giving even ostentatious polluters a reprieve". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 94 (7): 38–51.
[12]
Anthologies
Matt Ridley, ed. (2002). The Best American Science Writing 2002. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093650-1.
Talbot, Margaret (2005). "Material Girls". In Camille Peri, Kate Moses. Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-059878-5.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Book reviews
| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Talbot, Margaret (January–February 2009). "Courage in profiles : how Marjorie Williams rendered the lives of Washington's powerful". Washington Monthly: 52–54.CS1 maint: Date format (link) | Williams, Marjorie. Reputation : portraits in power. Edited by Timothy Noah. Public Affairs. |
Notes
^ http://www.democratichub.com/margaret-talbot
^ Talbot, Margaret (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test". The New Yorker: 32–37.
^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/margaret_talbot/search?contributorName=margaret%20talbot
^ http://www.tnr.com/search/apachesolr_search/margaret%20talbot
^ 30, March. The New York Times https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=Margaret+Talbot&more=date_all. Retrieved May 12, 2010. Missing or empty|title=(help)
^ https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/margaret_talbot
^ http://www.slate.com/id/2254398/
^ https://feeds.feedburner.com/DoubleXPodcasts
^ http://newamerica.net/user/99
^ Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
^ Photographs by Philip Montgomery
^ Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt’s dirty politics".
External links
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
