Marc Weingarten is a writer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Wall St Journal,  The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Monocle, Globe and Mail,  Boston Globe, Salon, and Slate, among others.

Among his books are Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water and The Real Chinatown, an LA Times bestseller;  Station to Station: The History of Music on Television, an LA Times bestseller and a finalist for the Ralph J. Gleason award for music book of the year.  The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight: Thompson, Didion, Wolfe and the New Journalism Revolution,  a history of New Journalism which, wrote Mark Bowden in his review, “captures the swirl of youthful energy that produced…the prose equivalent of hand grenades.”

Weingarten also worked as a producer on Shane Salerno’s film SALINGER and as a creative consultant on Jeff Berg’s PBS documentary THE GREAT THIRST.