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Alissa Quart is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. The following is a list of recently published articles.

Articles

Dangerous Beauty (New York Times Sunday Book Review) December 5, 2009

What Does Free Culture Cost? (Columbia Journalism Review) July 13, 2009

Dirty Nostalgia (From the anthology "Dirt") June 24, 2009

Listening to Madness (Newsweek) May 18, 2009

The Sarcastic Times: For Rachel Maddow, Absurdity Is Serious (Columbia Journalism Review) March 13, 2009

Selling 'Frozen River' (The Big Money) February 20, 2009

A New Book Finds Salvation in Craft's Revival (I.D. Magazine) January 21, 2009

Music Lessons: What journalists could learn from Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, and Bon Iver (Columbia Journalism Review) December 12, 2008

Nothin' for Money (Portfolio.com) October 31, 2008

The Ratings Game (The Big Money) September 19, 2008

Flickring Out--Photojournalism in the Age of Bytes and Amateurs (Columbia Journalism Review) July 24, 2008

Obsessed With Our Destroyers (Columbia Journalism Review) May 29, 2008

Lost Media, Found Media (Columbia Journalism Review) May 19, 2008

When Chick Flicks Get Knocked Up (Mother Jones) May 15, 2008

When Girls Will Be Boys (New York Times Magazine) March 16, 2008

Clay Shirky Celebrates Mob Rule (Village Voice) March 12, 2008

Unmarketable (Mother Jones) December 1, 2007

Billboards By Any Other Name (New York Times) October 14, 2007

Greg Bottoms and Outsider Art (Bookforum) September 9, 2007

Michael Winterbottom's Road Pictures for Our Time (American Prospect) August 22, 2007

The Child Soldiers of Staten Island (Mother Jones) July 9, 2007

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Revolutionary Daughter (New York Magazine) April 16, 2007

The Amateur Revolution (Mother Jones) January 8, 2007

Extreme Parenting (The Atlantic Monthly) August 1, 2006

Guided by (Many, Many) Voices (New York Times Magazine) February 26, 2006

Why Are Thousands of Teenagers Working Long Hours for No Money? (Seventeen) September 1, 2003

Plug the band, get the t-shirt (The Times (London)) April 28, 2003

Unbranding (Boston Globe) January 12, 2003

A Smarter Way to Sell Ketchup (Wired) December 1, 2002

Cultural Sabotage Waged in Cyberspace (New York Times) August 17, 2000

The Visionary, Destructive Art of Gordon Matta-Clark (Metropolis) January 1, 2000

Don't You Forget About Me (New York Magazine) May 8, 1998

Book Reviews

Dangerous Beauty (New York Times Sunday Book Review) December 5, 2009

A New Book Finds Salvation in Craft's Revival (I.D. Magazine) January 21, 2009

Clay Shirky Celebrates Mob Rule (Village Voice) March 12, 2008

Unmarketable (Mother Jones) December 1, 2007

Greg Bottoms and Outsider Art (Bookforum) September 9, 2007

God Save the Teen (Bookforum) March 24, 2007

Design Anarchy (I.D.) June 6, 2006

They Don't Feel Your Pain (New York Times) May 1, 2005

The Parent Trap (New York Times) May 8, 2004

Film

Selling 'Frozen River' (The Big Money) February 20, 2009

Michael Winterbottom's Road Pictures for Our Time (American Prospect) August 22, 2007

Networked: Don Roos and 'Happy Endings' (Film Comment) August 1, 2005

Our Bodies, Our Selves (Film Comment) May 8, 2004

Reelpolitics (The Nation) April 2, 2001

Opinion Pieces

Billboards By Any Other Name (New York Times) October 14, 2007

Girls and Boys, Interrupted (New York Times) October 2, 2006

Jumpstarting a Career (Boston Globe) August 28, 2005

They're Not Buying It (New York Times) November 6, 2004

Welcome to (Company Name Here) High(TM) (New York Times) July 16, 2003

Profiles & Interviews of Alissa Quart

Salon August 31, 2006

Leonard Lopate Interview of Alissa Quart August 30, 2006

Diane Rehm Interviews Alissa Quart August 29, 2006

Today Show Segment With Alissa Quart August 26, 2006

Tavis Smiley Interviews Alissa Quart August 22, 2003

Diane Rehm Interview on "Branded" February 11, 2003