Stephen Rodrick
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Stephen Rodrick is an American journalist who is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for Men's Journal. He also writes for Rolling Stone. Rodrick writes mostly about politics, film, and sports, often following his subjects around for months before writing.
Biography
Before becoming a reporter, Rodrick worked as a deputy press secretary for United States Senator Alan J. Dixon.{{citation|last=Rodrick|first=Stephen|year=2018|title=I helped write a speech defending a vote for Clarence Thomas. I regret it still.|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=2018-09-21|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-helped-write-a-speech-defending-a-vote-for-clarence-thomas-i-regret-it-still/2018/09/21/d60b3300-bcee-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html}}
In 1996, Rodrick wrote an exposé of controversial Republican political consultant Arthur Finkelstein for Boston Magazine.{{cite book|last=Huberman|first=Jack|title=101 people who are really screwing America: (and Bernard Goldberg is only #73)|url=https://archive.org/details/101peoplewhoarer00hube|url-access=registration|accessdate=10 September 2010|date=30 May 2006|publisher=Nation Books|isbn=978-1-56025-875-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/101peoplewhoarer00hube/page/61 61]}} The story included the first interview with Finkelstein in over a decade.
Rodrick's stories for New York magazine have included profiles of Senator Fred Thompson and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The Giuliani story was included in the 2007 edition of The Best American Political Writing anthology. Rodrick's stories have also been anthologized five times in The Best American Sports Writing series, The Best American Crime Reporting series, Wild Stories: The Best of Men's Journal, and Going Long: The Best Stories From Runner's World. His first book, The Magical Stranger was published in May 2013. The book is an account of his father's life, Commander Peter Rodrick, killed in a plane crash on November 28, 1979, and two years spent with VAQ-135, his father's former squadron. The book was excerpted in Men's Journal, Slate, Salon, and The New York Times Magazine.http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/a-pilots-son-flying-solo-20130509http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/06/a_town_without_fathers_our_dads_were_american_heroes_but_they_were_never.html {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/a-pilots-son-flying-solo-20130509 |title=The Magical Stranger Stephen Rodrick Excerpt - MensJournal.com |website=www.mensjournal.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905121305/http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/a-pilots-son-flying-solo-20130509 |archive-date=2013-09-05}} {{Cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/07/03/our_tortured_independence_day/|title = Our tortured Independence Day|date = 4 July 2013}}
In November 2013, Tina Brown described Rodrick's profile of Robert Redford as "a very, very evocative piece about Redford, who is himself a survivor."{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/11/19/245962100/tina-browns-must-reads-on-survival|title=Tina Brown's Must-Reads: On Survival|newspaper=NPR.org}} In 2018, Rodrick wrote a profile about actor Johnny Depp for the Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/johnny-depp-lawsuit-marriage-w521671|title=The Trouble With Johnny Depp|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Stephen|last=Rodrick|date=June 21, 2018|accessdate=August 2, 2018}}
He appears briefly as a New York Times reporter in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} and, uncredited, as a fantasy baseball player in Knocked Up.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}.
Bibliography
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- {{cite book |title=The magical stranger : a son's journey into his father's life |location=New York |publisher=Harper |year=2013 }}
- {{cite journal |date=April 6, 2015 |title=The nerd hunter : the casting director Allison Jones is reshaping American comedy, one misfit at a time |department=Onward and Upward with the Arts |journal=The New Yorker |volume=91 |issue=7 |pages=34–41 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/the-nerd-hunter }}Online version is titled "Allison Jones, nerd hunter".
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