Bill Goldstein

Bill Goldstein is former founding editor of the books site of nytimes.com, book critic for NBC’s “Weekend Today in New York.” As editorial curator for “Times Talks,” the public speaker series of The New York Times, he programs and frequently moderates panel discussions on the arts, culture and politics. His book reviews, author interviews and coverage of the publishing industry have appeared regularly in The New York Times, Newsday, People and other publications. A graduate of The University of Chicago, he started his career in journalism at Publishers Weekly and was assistant book editor at Newsday as well as a senior editor at Scribner before joining The Times in 1996. He was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism in 2003-04. His essay on the performance history of Milton’s “Samson Agonistes,” “Samson Regained: A Play in Perpetual World Premiere,” was published in the collection Uncircumscribed Mind: Reading Milton Deeply, edited by Charles W. Durham and Kristin A. Pruitt (Susquehanna University Press, 2008). Bill Goldstein is also a graduate teaching fellow at Hunter College and is completing a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he studied with Eve Sedgwick and took her year-long Proust seminar twice.