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] 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]

Life

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 David Talbot, "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] Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot.

Awards

Bibliography

Books

  • 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

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. Williams, Marjorie. Reputation : portraits in power. Edited by Timothy Noah. Public Affairs.

Notes

  1. Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
  2. Lena Dunham's Girls.
  3. Photographs by Philip Montgomery
  4. Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt’s dirty politics".
  5. Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion".
  6. Online version is titled "The challenge at the border shows no signs of abating".
  7. Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Court’s fate in Elena Kagan’s hands?".
  8. Online version is titled "How the real Jane Roe shaped the abortion wars".
  9. Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".
  10. Online version is titled "Justice Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over".

Notes

  1. "Margaret Talbot - Liberal Journalist". Democratic Hub.
  2. Talbot, Margaret (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test". The New Yorker. pp. 32–37.
  3. "BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS | Kirkus Reviews". Retrieved September 2, 2023 via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  4. "Search : The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010.
  5. Margaret Talbot tnr.com
  6. "Margaret Talbot". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  7. "Margaret Talbot". The Atlantic.
  8. Rosin, Hanna; Talbot, Margaret; Bazelon, Emily (May 20, 2010). "DoubleX Gabfest, the "Which Lie Is Worse?" Edition". Slate.
  9. "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism". feeds.feedburner.com.
  10. New America Foundation
  11. San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940
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