John Seabrook has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and became a staff writer in 1993. Seabrook explores the intersection between creativity and commerce in the fields of technology, design, and music. Seabrook is the author of “Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture,” which was published in 2000; “Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace,” which was published in 1997; and “Flash of Genius, and Other True Stories of Invention,” which was published in 2008. His most recent book, “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory,” was published by Norton in October, 2015. Before joining the New Yorker, Seabrook was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Manhattan Inc. magazine.