Margaret Talbot is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 article of The New Yorker 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]
Margaret Talbot | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (1999) |
| Parents | Lyle Talbot Margaret Epple |
| Relatives | Joe Talbot |
| Website | |
| margarettalbot | |
Life
editShe 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 brother David, "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.[11] Filmmaker Joe Talbot is her nephew.
Awards
edit- 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography
editBooks
edit- Talbot, Margaret (2012). The entertainer: movies, magic, and my father's Twentieth Century. Riverhead.
- Talbot, David & Margaret Talbot (2021). By the light of burning dreams: the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution. New York: Harper.
Essays and reporting
edit- 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.[a]
- — (April 16, 2012). "Girls will be Girls". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 39–40.[b]
- — (March 11, 2013). "Higher authorities". 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.
- Talbot, Margaret & Philip Montgomery (October 30, 2017). "Faces of an epidemic: in Montgomery County, Ohio, opioid addiction permeates everyday life". Portfolio. The New Yorker. 93 (34): 50–59.[c]
- 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.[d]
- — (February 11, 2019). "Not working". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 15–16.[e]
- — (June 3, 2019). "No mercy". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 95 (15): 15–16.[f]
- — (November 18, 2019). "The pivotal Justice". Profiles. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 36–49.[g]
- — (September 20, 2021). "The real Roe: what we can learn from the all-too-human plaintiff behind Roe v. Wade". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (29): 66–71.[h]
- — (September 27, 2021). "A necessary right". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 97 (30): 21–22.[i]
- — (September 5, 2022). "The last word: Justice Samuel Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over". Profiles. The New Yorker. 98 (27): 24–37.[j]
Anthologies
edit- 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
edit| 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. Timothy Noah (ed.). Reputation: portraits in power. Public Affairs. |
Notes
edit- ^ 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?".
- ^ Online version is titled "How the real Jane Roe shaped the abortion wars".
- ^ Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".
- ^ Online version is titled "Justice Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over".
References
edit- ^ "Margaret Talbot - Liberal Journalist". Democratic Hub.
- ^ Talbot, Margaret (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test". The New Yorker. pp. 32–37.
- ^ "BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS | Kirkus Reviews". Retrieved September 2, 2023 – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "Search: The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010.
- ^ Margaret Talbot tnr.com [dead link]
- ^ "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". Slate.
- ^ "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism". feeds.feedburner.com.
- ^ New America Foundation [dead link]
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940