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]
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]
Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot.
Awards
- 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography
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. 87 (42): 24–29.[10]
- — (April 16, 2012). "Girls will be Girls". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 39–40.[11]
- — (March 11, 2013). "Higher auhtorities". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (4): 17–18.
- — (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.
- — (January 12, 2015). "The talking cure". Annals of Education. The New Yorker. 90 (43): 38–47.
- — (February 16, 2015). "Not immune". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 91 (1): 19–20.
- — (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.[12]
- 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. 94 (7): 38–51.[13]
- — (February 11, 2019). "Not working". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 15–16.[14]
- — (June 3, 2019). "No mercy". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 95 (15): 15–16.[15]
- — (November 18, 2019). "The pivotal Justice". Profiles. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 36–49.[16]
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.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.
- https://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
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- http://www.slate.com/id/2254398/
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/DoubleXPodcasts
- 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?".
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