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LEE SIEGEL
is the author of seven previous books, including Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, The Draw: A Memoir, and Why Argument Matters. He has published over 800 articles, essays, and reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Atlantic, among many other publications. He has been a senior editor of and television critic for the New Republic, book critic for The Nation, art critic for Slate, associate editor of ARTnews, senior columnist for the Daily Beast, and weekly columnist for the New York Observer. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their two children.