Tom Vanderbilt Email & Phone Number

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In this expansive and surprising investigation from the author ofTRAFFIC and BEGINNERS, Tom Vanderbilt plunges into the complex,often-hidden world of airports and takes us behind the scenes toexplain how these sprawling, intensively engineered transport hubsactually work.

New York City

In BEGINNERS: The Power and Pleasure of Lifelong Learning, Tom Vanderbilt embarks on an exciting journey to acquire a range of new physical and artistic skills—from surfing and singing —and celebrates the joys and pitfalls of learning something new. “In an age when we are all expected to be experts in something,” he writes, BEGINNERS challenges the status quo, focusing not on the grand mastery of skills, but on taking pleasure, for pleasure’s sake, in the process of trying to learn new ones. Inspired by trying to learn chess with his young daughter, he opens the door to a new world of possibility.

London, United Kingdom

Greater New York City Area

"Traffic" Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us," published in August, 2008, by Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin in the U.K), and in softcover by Vintage in August, 2009 provides a fresh, engaging look at an everyday environment we often take for granted: Traffic. With chapters examining everything from the psychology of traffic to risk on the road to why traffic behaves differently in New Delhi than Norway, "Traffic" will make you think about the simple act of getting around in a whole new way. The book has been translated into 15 different languages, was named a top 10 book of the year by the Washington Post and other outlets, and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in both hardcover and softcover.

Greater New York City Area

From the bestselling author of Traffic, an enlightening and illuminating look at why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us.Why is showing up to work wearing the same outfit as a coworker so embarrassing? Why do we venerate so many artists who were controversial or ignored during their lifetimes? What makes an ideal cat an ideal cat, or an ideal beer an ideal beer, in the eyes of expert judges? From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste, to our unsettling insecurity before unfamiliar works of art to the complex dynamics of our playlists and the pop charts, our preferences and opinions are constantly being shaped by countless forces. And in the digital age, a nonstop procession of “thumbs” and “likes” and “stars” is helping dictate our choices. Taste has moved online— there are more ways than ever for us, and companies, to see what and how we are consuming. . If you’ve ever wondered how Netflix recommends movies, how to spot a fake Yelp! review, or why books often see a sudden decline in Amazon ratings rafter they win a major prize, Tom Vanderbilt has answers to these questions and many more that you’ve probably never thought to ask. With a voracious curiosity, Vanderbilt stalks the elusive beast of taste, probing research in psychology, marketing, and neuroscience to answer a myriad of complex and fascinating questions. Comprehensively researched and singularly insightful, You May Also Like is a joyous intellectual journey that helps us better understand how we perceive, judge and appreciate the world around us."Essential for readers who are interested in getting a glimpse of the decision-making process at influential online media companies, as well as those who are interested in the processes that govern individual preferences and taste making." — Library Journal

Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Slate, The London Review of Books, Gourmet, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Metropolis, and Popular Science. He is contributing editor to I.D. and Print and contributing writer to Design Observer. He is the author of two previous books: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002); and The Sneaker Book (The New Press, 1998 republished in Italian and Swedish editions). His writings for The Baffler have been collected in two anthologies, Commodify Your Dissent and Boob Jubilee (W.W. Norton), and his essays have appeared in many books, including New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times; Supercade: The Visual History of the Video Game Age; Else/Where: Mapping; and Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age.