[Mali Maeder | Pexels]
Bio
After stints in other fields — bookstores, restaurants, construction — I started writing professionally in the mid-1990s, and have worked as a writer and editor ever since.
Over the years I helped launch websites like the award-winning LIFE.com; was managing editor for the pioneering e-zine, FEED; worked at Condé Nast for a minute; was coordinating editor for movies coverage at MTV.com; and have contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I wrote the Foreword to Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020) and a biography of a remarkable Long Island businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller, Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017), and edited the anthologies Covering the Bases — featuring newspaper coverage of the most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony.
BDC Writes, meanwhile, provides editorial services -- reviewing web copy, ghost writing op-eds, etc. -- to individuals and organizations. Feel free to contact me for more information: 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, construction — I started writing professionally in the mid-1990s, and have worked as a writer and editor ever since.
Over the years I helped launch websites like the award-winning LIFE.com; was managing editor for the pioneering e-zine, FEED; worked at Condé Nast for a minute; was coordinating editor for movies coverage at MTV.com; and have contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I wrote the Foreword to Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020) and a biography of a remarkable Long Island businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller, Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017), and edited the anthologies Covering the Bases — featuring newspaper coverage of the most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony.
BDC Writes, meanwhile, provides editorial services -- reviewing web copy, ghost writing op-eds, etc. -- to individuals and organizations. Feel free to contact me for more information: ben@bdcwrites.com.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife, Myung Lee, our daughter, and a dog named Pippin.