Steve Garbarino

Steve Garbarino
Born Bryn Mawr, PA
Occupation Contributing editor for The Wall Street Journal
Nationality American
Citizenship U.S.
Education University of South Florida
Spouse Maddy Garbarino

Steve Garbarino is an American journalist, editor, and author of A Fitzgerald Companion: Libations, Destinations and Quotable Ruminations Favored by the Literary Mascot of the Jazz Age (Thornwillow Press, 2013).[1] He is currently a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a culture reporter for The Wall Street Journal.[2][3][4]

Career

Garbarino started his journalism career as a staff writer for The Times-Picayune, The Tampa Tribune and The St. Petersburg Times.[5] He was then the deputy features editor of The New York Post, the writer-at-large for Details, and the style director for Us Monthly.[5]

In 2006, Garbarino joined BlackBook Magazine, a style and culture magazine in New York, as the editor-in-chief, where he oversaw a redesign and expansion to 10 issues a year.[6][7][8] After BlackBook, Garbarino was editor-at-large of Maxim from 2008 to 2009.[6] While there, he notably profiled Micky Rourke who discussed his suicide attempt and sexual abuse as a child, which received attention from other publications.[9][10][11]

He then joined Playboy as the editor-at-large, before joining The Wall Street Journal as a culture reporter.[12] He is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and others.[5][13][14] While at Vanity Fair, Garbarino profiled Robert Downey Jr. while the actor was in prison, as well as reclusive The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino—for which Cimino was photographed for the first time in 20 years.[15][16][17]

References

  1. "A Taste of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and His Favorite Cocktails, at the St. Regis (Photos)". Washingtonian.
  2. Chris Suellentrop (February 24, 2006). "Write Me Something, Mister". The New York Times.
  3. Steve Garbarino (February 23, 2006). "Welcome to New Orleans: A Confederacy of Drunkards". The Wall Street Journal.
  4. James Poulos (March 27, 2012). "How You Can Bring Back the International Playboy (or Playgirl)". Forbes.
  5. 1 2 3 "Steve Garbarino". Vanity Fair.
  6. 1 2 Keith J. Kelly (May 20, 2008). "BlackBook Rocked by Second Exec Exit".
  7. "New 'BlackBook' Chief: Steve Garbarino!". Gawker. June 13, 2006.
  8. Francesca Segrè (September 23, 2007). "Maddy Simpson and Steven Garbarino". The New York Times.
  9. "Rourke's divine intervention". The Week. November 14, 2008.
  10. "Divine Intervention". New York Post. November 1, 2008.
  11. "Gossip roundup: The Rare Sunday Edition". Gawker.
  12. Steven Forster (September 12, 2010). "Steven Forster's Big Easy: Spike Lee Premiere, Dirty Linen, The Help, and more". The Times-Picayune.
  13. Steve Garbarino (January 19, 1998). "Table Talk". The New Yorker.
  14. Steve Garbarino (May 30, 1999). "Party Pooper?". The New York Times.
  15. Jennifer Tung (August 6, 1999). "Pals Feel for Good Guy Who 'Has an Illness'". New York Post.
  16. Rush, George and Joanna Molloy (June 29, 2000). "Downey Opens A Window On Hell". New York Daily News.
  17. Steve Garbarino (March 2002). "Michael Cimino's Final Cut". Vanity Fair.
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