Logan Hill

I’m Logan Hill, a film-crazed, pop-addled writer who grew up in the Sandhills of North Carolina, about 12 miles from a stoplight. Now I live in Harlem, just steps from the 1 train. After graduating from UNC, I grabbed a Master’s in the American Studies PhD program at Yale. Then I dropped out because I decided to write less about dead people and start talking to people who are, well, alive. At New York, I fell hard for the city and covered arts and culture for eleven years, from Robert Downey Jr. to Madonna to Spike Lee. I edited film and theater sections, while reporting on political activists, Kanye West, and Benihana’s Rocky Aoki. With brilliant colleagues, I had a blast launching Vulture in 2007, while reviewing films and obsessing over Mad Men. Then I did a year as a Senior Editor at GQ. Now freelance, I mix it up. At The New York Times, I regularly contribute features, moderate TimesTalks, and host the monthly screening series ScreenTimes. At Cosmopolitan, I write the advice column “Ask Him Anything.” I’ve written scores of cover stories about people like Rihanna, Claire Danes, and Ethan Hawke. I’ve written about cruise entertainers, cosmetic visual effects, and my own name. For This American Life, I told the story of a sci-fi-obsessed teen runaway. In 2017, I was a Sundance Institute Nonfiction Critics Fellow; I worked as a script editor on Elan and Jonathan Bogarín’s joyous film 306 Hollywood; and I co-founded the editorial firm Dancing Chicken Studios with nymag.com editorial director Ben Williams. For our first project, we launched BREAKER. I’ve contributed to This American Life, Bloomberg Businessweek, Cosmopolitan, Details, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Fast Company, Glamour, GQ, Grantland, The Hairpin, I.D., Indiewire, InStyle, Los Angeles, Maxim, Men’s Journal, The Nation, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, NY Post, The Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, Rolling Stone, Slate, Time Out NY, Travel and Leisure, Variety, The Village Voice, VMan, Wired, WSJ, and the anthology Technicolor: Race, Technology & Everyday Life. On TV, I reviewed movies on NY1’s show “Talking Pictures” for about a decade. I’ve also appeared on A&E, ABC, BBC America, CBS, MSNBC, MTV, NPR, and VH1. I sit on the advisory board of Syracuse University’s Goldring Arts Journalism program. I may bump into you while jurying or moderating anywhere from Austin to Cannes.