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Benjamin Nugent

Benjamin Nugent joined the staff of Time magazine as an arts and pop culture correspondent at the age of 22. He's gone on to write for numerous publications, including New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, NME, Legal Affairs, n+1, and the New York Post. Nugent's first book, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, a study of the indie rock musician was published in 2004. In 2005, his essay on authors and money, "Security," was included in an anthology of essays by young writers on writing, Bookmark Now, whose other contributors included Nell Freudenberger and Tom Bissell. His n+1 essay “Why Don’t Republicans Write Fiction?” was praised by The Boston Globe... Read full bio

Biography
Benjamin Nugent joined the staff of Time magazine as an arts and pop culture correspondent at the age of 22. He's gone on to write for numerous publications, including New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, NME, Legal Affairs, n+1, and the New York Post. Nugent's first book, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, a study of the indie rock musician was published in 2004. In 2005, his essay on authors and money, "Security," was included in an anthology of essays by young writers on writing, Bookmark Now, whose other contributors included Nell Freudenberger and Tom Bissell. His n+1 essay “Why Don’t Republicans Write Fiction?” was praised by The Boston Globe Ideas section last week as “clever” and “incisive.” He lives in Los Angeles. He was a nerdy child.