I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. You can reach me at hearst@nyc.rr.com.

I’m primarily a writer and editor, and I’ve spent most of my career in magazines. I was the managing editor of Lingua Franca for the final year of its existence (it folded in late 2001), and after that I was the managing editor of Book for the final year of its existence (Book folded in late 2003). From July 2004 to February 2005, I served as the editorial director of a startup company that was attempting to create the first-ever Book-of-the-Month Club–style book club for progressive/liberal titles. Some other jobs I held earlier in my career: editor of The Electronic Newsstand (enews.com), a magazine-related website owned by New Republic owner Marty Peretz; editorial assistant at the Columbia Journalism Review; and editorial assistant at The Voyager Company, which pioneered literary CD-ROM publishing in the mid-’90s, just before the web rendered CD-ROM publishing more or less obsolete. I started my career as a contracts assistant at the literary book publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

My articles and essays have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Lingua Franca, Metropolis, The Village Voice, Nerve, the U.K. Independent, Book, The New York Sun, Mediabistro.com, Civilization, Newsday, Print, Time Out New York, Columbia Journalism Review, and other places. Some of my more recent writing is collected on this page.

I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, a wonderful, idyllic college town that was the setting for the classic 1979 coming-of-age film Breaking Away. I moved to New York for college in 1987 and have been here pretty much ever since. I live in Manhattan’s East Village.

I make music with guitars, computers, and electronics. My influences range from Jimi Hendrix and Tom Morello to Air, Boards of Canada, and William Orbit. Details and mp3s are here.