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Long Story Short
After stints in other fields — bookstores, restaurants, house-framing — I started writing professionally in the mid-1990s, and have worked as a writer and editor ever since.
I've helped launch sites like the National Magazine Award-winning LIFE.com; was managing editor for the pioneering e-zine, FEED; worked at Condé Nast for a minute; was the coordinating editor for movies coverage at MTV.com; and have written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Columbia Journalism Review, TIME, New York Daily News, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I've written, edited, or contributed to a number of books, including Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020); the biography of a remarkable Long Island businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller, Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017); and the anthologies Covering the Bases — featuring newspaper sportswriters on the greatest moments in baseball history — and Gluttony, both published by Chronicle Books.
I created BDC Writes to provide editorial services to individuals and organizations. If you've written something that could use an edit; if you've been staring for too long at a pile of scribbled notes; if you have an idea for an article, op-ed, or book and would like help fleshing it out, please drop me a line: ben@bdcwrites.com.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife, Myung Lee, our daughter, and a dog named Pippin.
After stints in other fields — bookstores, restaurants, house-framing — I started writing professionally in the mid-1990s, and have worked as a writer and editor ever since.
I've helped launch sites like the National Magazine Award-winning LIFE.com; was managing editor for the pioneering e-zine, FEED; worked at Condé Nast for a minute; was the coordinating editor for movies coverage at MTV.com; and have written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Columbia Journalism Review, TIME, New York Daily News, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I've written, edited, or contributed to a number of books, including Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020); the biography of a remarkable Long Island businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller, Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017); and the anthologies Covering the Bases — featuring newspaper sportswriters on the greatest moments in baseball history — and Gluttony, both published by Chronicle Books.
I created BDC Writes to provide editorial services to individuals and organizations. If you've written something that could use an edit; if you've been staring for too long at a pile of scribbled notes; if you have an idea for an article, op-ed, or book and would like help fleshing it out, please drop me a line: ben@bdcwrites.com.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife, Myung Lee, our daughter, and a dog named Pippin.