About
After stints in construction, restaurants, and other fields, I started writing and editing professionally in the late 1990s.
I was Managing Editor for the pioneering e-zine, Feedmag, and for Wired's political channel, Netizen; worked at Condé Nast for a minute and at TIME.com for several years; and was part of the crew that launched the award-winning photography, history, and culture site, LIFE.com. Along the way I worked with and learned from some of the best in the business.
Also:
— Contributor: New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Red Canary magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and others.
— Wrote the Foreword to photographer Joseph Szabo's 2020 book, Hometown; told the life story of a businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller in Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017); and edited two anthologies -- one on baseball, Covering the Bases, the other on Gluttony.
— Today I'm a librarian at the Yonkers Public Library, and I still do occasional freelance work here and there. I live with my family in New York City.
[Contact: ben at bdcwrites dot com]
After stints in construction, restaurants, and other fields, I started writing and editing professionally in the late 1990s.
I was Managing Editor for the pioneering e-zine, Feedmag, and for Wired's political channel, Netizen; worked at Condé Nast for a minute and at TIME.com for several years; and was part of the crew that launched the award-winning photography, history, and culture site, LIFE.com. Along the way I worked with and learned from some of the best in the business.
Also:
— Contributor: New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Red Canary magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and others.
— Wrote the Foreword to photographer Joseph Szabo's 2020 book, Hometown; told the life story of a businessman, inventor, and problem-solver named Jim Miller in Nothing Bad Ever Happens (2017); and edited two anthologies -- one on baseball, Covering the Bases, the other on Gluttony.
— Today I'm a librarian at the Yonkers Public Library, and I still do occasional freelance work here and there. I live with my family in New York City.
[Contact: ben at bdcwrites dot com]