Steve Garbarino

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'''Steve Garbarino''' is an American journalist, editor, and author of ''A Fitzgerald Companion: Libations, Destinations and Quotable Ruminations Favored by the Literary Mascot of the Jazz Age'' (Thornwillow Press, 2013).<ref name=was>{{cite web|title=A Taste of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and His Favorite Cocktails, at the St. Regis (Photos)|date=25 October 2013 |url=https://washingtonian.com/2013/10/25/a-taste-of-f-scott-fitzgerald-and-his-favorite-cocktails-at-the-st-regis-photos/|publisher=Washingtonian}}</ref> He is currently a contributing editor for ''Vanity Fair'' and a culture reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/write-me-something-mister/ |title= Write Me Something, Mister |author=Chris Suellentrop |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 24, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114064777175280550?mod=todays_us_personal_journal |title=Welcome to New Orleans: A Confederacy of Drunkards |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |author=Steve Garbarino |date=February 23, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2012/03/27/how-you-can-bring-back-the-international-playboy-or-playgirl/ |title=How You Can Bring Back the International Playboy (or Playgirl) |author=James Poulos |newspaper=Forbes |date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>

==Career== Garbarino started his journalism career as a staff writer for ''The Times-Picayune'', ''The Tampa Tribune'' and ''St. Petersburg Times''.<ref name=vanityfair>{{cite news |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/steve-garbarino |title=Steve Garbarino |newspaper=Vanity Fair}}</ref> He was then the deputy features editor of ''The New York Post'', the writer-at-large for Details, and the style director for ''Us Monthly''.<ref name=vanityfair/>

In 2006, Garbarino joined ''BlackBook Magazine'', a style and culture magazine in New York, as the editor-in-chief, where he oversaw a redesign and expansion to 10 issues a year. <ref>{{cite news |url= http://gawker.com/180431/new-blackbook-chief-steve-garbarino |title=New 'BlackBook' Chief: Steve Garbarino! |newspaper=Gawker |date=June 13, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/fashion/weddings/23vows.html |title=Maddy Simpson and Steven Garbarino |author=Francesca Segrè |date=September 23, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> After ''BlackBook'', Garbarino was editor-at-large of Maxim from 2008 to 2009.{{cn|date=April 2023}} While there, he notably profiled Mickey Rourke who discussed his suicide attempt and sexual abuse as a child, which received attention from other publications.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://theweek.com/article/index/90709/rourkes-divine-intervention |title=Rourke's divine intervention |newspaper=The Week |date=November 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://gawker.com/10768/ |title=Gossip roundup: The Rare Sunday Edition |newspaper=Gawker}}</ref>

He then joined Playboy as the editor-at-large, before joining ''The Wall Street Journal'' as a culture reporter.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nola.com/society/index.ssf/2010/09/steven_forsters_big_easy_spike.html |title=Steven Forster's Big Easy: Spike Lee Premiere, Dirty Linen, The Help, and more |author= Steven Forster |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |date=September 12, 2010}}</ref> He is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Observer'', and others.<ref name=vanityfair/><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1998/01/19/1998_01_19_028_TNY_LIBRY_000014745 |title=Table Talk |newspaper=The New Yorker |author=Steve Garbarino |date=January 19, 1998}}</ref><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/30/style/party-pooper.html |title=Party Pooper? |newspaper=The New York Times |author=Steve Garbarino |date=May 30, 1999}}</ref> While at Vanity Fair, Garbarino profiled Robert Downey Jr. while the actor was in prison, as well as reclusive The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino—in which Cimino's photograph was published for the first time in 20 years.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rush, George and Joanna Molloy |date=June 29, 2000 |title=Downey Opens A Window On Hell |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2000/06/29/downey-opens-a-window-on-hell/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=New York Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/ciminos-final-cut-200203 |title=Michael Cimino's Final Cut |newspaper=Vanity Fair |author=Steve Garbarino |date=March 2002}}</ref>

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