Glenn O’Brien is a writer, editor and creative director who lives and works in New York City. He served as editor-in-chief of Interview Magazine, New York Bureau Chief of Rolling Stone, editor at large of High Times and Maxim, co-founder of Bomb Magazine, co-founder and senior editor of Spin, editorial director of Art in America, Antiques and Interview Magazine. He wrote the columns Like Art in Artforum for 5 years, Glenn O’Brien’s Beat in Interview for 12 years, and The Style Guy in Details and GQ for 20 years. He edited and co-authored Madonna’s SEX. He is currently editor-at-large of Maxim. He produced and wrote the film Downtown 81 starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, produced and hosted the cable TV show Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party from 1978-1982, and currently hosts the talk show Tea at the Beatrice with Glenn O’Brien on the M2M channel. He has authored catalogs and monographs on Miles Aldridge, John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Corinne Day, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Jane Dickson,Sante D’Orazio, Anh Duong, Todd Eberle, Keith Haring, Huger Foote, Jan Frank, Freeman & Lowe, Nan Goldin, Ari Marcopoulos, Jessica Craig Martin, Eddie Martinez, McDermott/McGough, Shawn Mortensen, James Nares, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Thomas Scheibitz, Dash Snow, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool. O’Brien was creative director of advertising for Barneys New York from 1986-1996 and Calvin Klein 1997-2000; he was creative director of Island Records 1997-2004. In recent years he has created advertising for Armani, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Dior, Dunhill, Max Mara and David Yurman. His books include Soapbox: Essays, Diatribes, Homilies and Screeds; Human Nature (dub version); Penance; The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground (editor.)