John Strausbaugh

Who is John Strausbaugh?

John Strausbaugh is an American author, cultural commentator, and host of the New York Times "Weekend Explorer" video podcast series on New York City.

Strausbaugh's new book The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, April 9, 2013, explains the tumultuous events that made New York's Greenwich Village the cultural engine of America. The book is described by Kurt Anderson as "the definitive history of America's bohemian wellspring and prototypical modern neighborhood with all the verve and fun and rigor it deserves."

Strausbaugh's books have examined the history of recreational drug use, the intersection of politics and popular culture in the White House, the priesthood that spreads the gospel of Elvisism and Rock and Roll's infidelity to the youth culture that created it, which was declared “the definitive word on the senescent Rolling Stones” by The New York Times.