About Peter Hyman
A former Vanity Fair staffer and men’s magazine editor (Drill, Men.style.com), Peter Hyman writes features, reviews and humor pieces for The New York Times, The New York Observer, Details, Spin, Radar, The San Francisco Chronicle, Men’s Journal, Portfolio, McSweeneys and various others. His first book, a collection of essays entitled The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life (Villard), was published in August of 2004. He is the the host of a talk show series called “New York States of Mind” at the Makor Center and an occasional commentator for NPR. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and his dog.

About Manufactured Dissent
Manufactured Dissent is the greatest blog in the world not devoted to pornography or Civil War reenactments.