J. Hoberman was born in New York and grew up reading The Village Voice where he has been the senior film critic since 1988. He teaches in the Humanities Division at Cooper Union, co-edited Wait For Me at the Bottom of the Pool: The Writings of Jack Smith, and is the author of half a dozen books, including Midnight Movies (written with Jonathan Rosenbaum), Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media, and The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism.
