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American essayist and non-fiction writer
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]
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 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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
^ 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".
^
"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