Peter Kobel

Peter Kobel has worked as an editor at several magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, Saveur, ARTnews, and Premiere, and has written for The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune, among many other publications.

His critically acclaimed book "Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture" (Little, Brown and Co.) was published in collaboration with the Library of Congress.

More recently, Kobel has worked for a number of nonprofit organizations. He currently writes mainly about environmental and economic-justice issues.