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] She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, By the Light of Burning Dreams (HarperCollins, 2021).[3]
Life[]
She is a staff writer at The New Yorker.[4] She has also written for The New Republic,[5] The New York Times Magazine,[6] and The Atlantic Monthly.[7] and was a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest".[8][9]
Her first book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century, was published in November 2012 by Riverhead.
Her second book, co-authored with David Talbot, "By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution," was published in June 2021 by HarperCollins.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.[10]
Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer. Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot.
Awards[]
- 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography[]
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Books[]
- Talbot, Margaret (2012). The entertainer : movies, magic, and my father's Twentieth Century. Riverhead.
Essays and reporting[]
- Talbot, Margaret (January 9, 2000). "The placebo prescription". Magazine. The New York Times.
- — (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. Vol. 87 no. 42. pp. 24–29.[11]
- — (April 16, 2012). "Girls will be Girls". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 88 no. 9. pp. 39–40.[12]
- — (March 11, 2013). "Higher authorities". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 4. pp. 17–18.
- — (March 18, 2013). "About a boy : Transgender surgery at sixteen". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 5. pp. 56–65.
- — (April 15, 2013). "Shots in the dark". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 9. pp. 21–22.
- — (May 13, 2013). "Game change". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 13. pp. 21–22.
- — (October 21, 2013). "Gone girl : The extraordinary resilience of Elizabeth Smart". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 33. pp. 32–38.
- — (October 28, 2013). "Home movies : Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 89 no. 34. pp. 50–59.
- — (January 12, 2015). "The talking cure". Annals of Education. The New Yorker. Vol. 90 no. 43. pp. 38–47.
- — (February 16, 2015). "Not immune". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 91 no. 1. pp. 19–20.
- — (December 19–26, 2016). "Women in the White House". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 92 no. 42. pp. 43–44.
- Talbot, Margaret & Philip Montgomery (October 30, 2017). "Faces of an epidemic : In Montgomery County, Ohio, opiod addiction permeates everyday life". Portfolio. The New Yorker. Vol. 93 no. 34. pp. 50–59.[13]
- Talbot, Margaret (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. Vol. 94 no. 7. pp. 38–51.[14]
- — (February 11, 2019). "Not working". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 94 no. 48. pp. 15–16.[15]
- — (June 3, 2019). "No mercy". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 95 no. 15. pp. 15–16.[16]
- — (November 18, 2019). "The pivotal Justice". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 95 no. 36. pp. 36–49.[17]
Anthologies[]
- Matt Ridley, ed. (2002). The Best American Science Writing 2002. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093650-1.
- Talbot, Margaret (2005). "Material girls". In Peri, Camille & Kate Moses (eds.). Because I said so : 33 mothers write about children, sex, men, aging, faith, race, and themselves. HarperCollins.
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. | Williams, Marjorie. Reputation : portraits in power. Edited by Timothy Noah. Public Affairs. |
Notes[]
- ^ "Margaret Talbot - Liberal Journalist". Democratic Hub.
- ^ Talbot, Margaret (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test". The New Yorker. pp. 32–37.
- ^ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-talbot/by-the-light-of-burning-dreams/
- ^ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/margaret_talbot/search?contributorName=margaret%20talbot
- ^ http://www.tnr.com/search/apachesolr_search/margaret%20talbot
- ^ "Margaret Talbot". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Margaret Talbot". The Atlantic.
- ^ Rosin, Hanna; Talbot, Margaret; Bazelon, Emily (May 20, 2010). "DoubleX Gabfest, the "Which Lie Is Worse?" Edition" – via Slate.
- ^ "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism". feeds.feedburner.com.
- ^ http://newamerica.net/user/99
- ^ Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
- ^ Lena Dunham's Girls.
- ^ Photographs by Philip Montgomery
- ^ Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt’s dirty politics".
- ^ Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion".
- ^ Online version is titled "The challenge at the border shows no signs of abating".
- ^ Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Court’s fate in Elena Kagan’s hands?".
External links[]
- American essayists
- Living people
- The New Yorker people