Background
Jeff Gordinier was born about 1963 in San Marino, California, United States.
Jeff Gordinier was born about 1963 in San Marino, California, United States.
Jeff Gordinier attended San Marino High School from 1980 till 1984. Then in 1988, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton University where he studied writing with noted authors like John McPhee, Russell Banks, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Right after university, Jeff Gordinier worked at Los Angeles Times as an intern. From 1988 to 1991, he was a city government and politics reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. One year he spent in Prague as a writer. Returning to the United States in 1992, he worked as a columnist, rock critic and culture writer at Santa Barbara News-Press. During the next seven years, he worked as an editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly. At the same time, he took the position of an occasional contributor at Esquire magazine and Fortune magazine. From 2002 Gordinier was an editor-at-large at Details magazine.
In 2008, he published his first book, X Saves the World. In the years that followed, Jeff worked at PoetryFoundation.org, The New York Times and Netflix in South Korea. In 2015, together with Marc Weingarten, he co-edited the book Here She Comes Now, a collection of essays about women in music. From 2016 he has been working at Tim Duggan Books as a writer and at Esquire magazine as a food-and-drink editor. His works appeared also in GQ, Elle, Spin, and Creative Nonfiction. His 2019 book is called Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World.
(In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto ...)
2008(Whether it was Patti Smith's angry moan, Nina Simone's gu...)
2015(Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but ...)
2019When Jeff Gordinier is writing, it's different - he usually wants something without words, because deft wordsmiths tend to interfere with his own pathetic attempts to string words together.
Quotations:
"Dumplings make people happy, children in particular."
"I’m not interested in big monuments. I’m interested in singular gestures that become models - small gestures in response to common issues that can be instituted by anyone."
"A blog is a zine liberated from the annoyances of physical form."
Music is important to Jeff Gordinier and he can't do anything without it. He still buys CDs. In the car, he prefers albums that are immersive, albums he can get lost in from start to finish, albums that are like movies or novels in that way. He also likes to sing, when there are lyrics, and he sings loudly and foolishly when he is alone.
Jeff Gordinier is married to Lauren Fonda. They have four children.
