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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 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, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I have 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 most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony, both published by Chronicle Books.
BDC Writes provides 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, construction — I started writing professionally in the mid-1990s, and have worked as a writer and editor ever since.
I 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, TIME, Gothamist, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN.com, and other outlets, online and off.
I have 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 most memorable moments in baseball history — and Gluttony, both published by Chronicle Books.
BDC Writes provides 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.