Margaret Eby is a journalist and critic who writes about books, movies, music, television, and various cultural ephemera for a variety of publications such as Brooklyn Magazine, The L Magazine, The New York Daily News, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Interview Magazine, The Paris Review Daily and The Los Angeles Times.
She is the author of Rock and Roll Baby Names and South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature.
'Going to New Orleans after a fresh reading of A Confederacy of Dunces gives the city a different flavour. Every sign begins to read like a knowing wink.'