I’m Logan Hill — and, yes, I am bummed that “Logan” has gone mainstream.

I’ve written comedic screenplays and pilots for Apple, Picturestart, Netflix, and Fifth Season as a member of the WGA. As a writer of documentary narration and story editor, I’ve also collaborated on some wildly imaginative feature films, including the Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy (Netflix), the Emmy-winning Dick Johnson is Dead (Netflix), the Emmy-winning 306 Hollywood (POV), Loudmouth (Showtime), and King Coal (POV).

I grew up in the rural Sandhills of North Carolina, went to UNC Chapel Hill, then dropped out of Yale’s American Studies PhD program to take a job at New York Magazine, where I spent years editing arts coverage; reviewing movies, TV, and theater; and reporting on everything else, from activists to Benihana’s inimitable Rocky Aoki. With great colleagues, I had a blast launching Vulture, where I spent TV’s Golden Age of Recaps writing about shows like Mad Men and championing great films from Sundance to Cannes.

I’ve been a New York Times TimesTalks host; a founder and host of the NYT ScreenTimes series; a Senior Editor at GQ; an on-air movie critic on NY1’s Talking Pictures; a Sundance Institute Nonfiction Critics Fellow; a founder of the editorial consultancy Dancing Chicken Studios; a digital-culture columnist at Wired/Backchannel; a founding launch editor of the blockchain magazine Breaker; and, oddly enough, a love-advice columnist in my syndicated Cosmopolitan columns “Ask Him Anything” and “Ask Logan.”

Elsewhere, I’ve told a half-hour This American Life story about my middle-school obsession with a fantasy novelist—and my friend who ran away to find him. I’ve written hundreds of profiles of artists, from Robert Downey Jr. and Spike Lee to Richard Linklater and Rihanna — plus long-form features on cruise ship entertainers, Hollywood’s impossible bodies, and the messy American folk hero Florida Man. 

Along the way, I’ve contributed to: Bloomberg Businessweek, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Fast Company, The Hairpin, ID, IndieWire, Men’s Journal, The Nation, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The NY Post, The Plain Dealer, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, Rolling Stone, Slate, This American Life, Time Out NY, Variety, The Village Voice, The Washington Post Magazine, Wired, WSJ, and the anthology Technicolor: Race, Technology & Everyday Life. My photography has been published in New York, Travel & Leisure, and Esquire.

Want to talk? Email logan@loganhill.com.