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Long Story Short
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.
I helped launch a number of celebrated websites, including the National Magazine 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 written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I contributed the Foreword to Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020); wrote 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 sportswriters on the most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony.
BDC Writes provides editorial services to individuals and organizations: writing op-eds, crafting book proposals, reviewing website copy, etc. 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.
I helped launch a number of celebrated websites, including the National Magazine 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 written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Beast, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I contributed the Foreword to Joseph Szabo's collection of photos from the 1970s and '80s, Hometown (2020); wrote 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 sportswriters on the most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony.
BDC Writes provides editorial services to individuals and organizations: writing op-eds, crafting book proposals, reviewing website copy, etc. 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.