John Seabrook
(b. 1959)

John Seabrook writes about technology and popular culture and the relationship between them. His first book Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (1997) is about a beginner's experience with the Internet. He compares exploring the Internet with the exploration of the American west. He also wrote Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture (2000). According to Seabrook during an interview, "Nobrow is my word for the end of the old cultural categories of 'highbrow' and 'lowbrow' culture. High and low have been absorbed by a new, supercharged pop culture. In this world I'm calling Nobrow, pop culture serves the purpose of both the old high and low culture…. Later I discovered Robert Frost had used the word 'Nobrow' in a speech he gave in the Sixties."

Seabrook has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993. Once, in preparation for an interview with Bill Gates, he decided to e-mail Gates several months in advance of the actual interview date. Gates responded to him within 20 minutes. Seabrook conducted the entire interview by e-mail. His article "E-mail from Bill Gates" appeared in The New Yorker. Seabrook has written articles for Harpers, Vanity Fair, GQ, the Nation, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Seabrook is a graduate of Princeton University and received an MA in English Literature from Oxford. He lives in New York City.

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