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Selected Journalism


The Spirit Of Form
Though the paint is dried, the movement is alive. Inside Fabienne Verdier’s exquisite abstract works
(Luxury Magazine, cover story)

A Mobile Museum At Sea 
When Frédéric Jousset wanted to build a bridge to the art world, he built a boat instead.
(Luxury Magazine, cover story)

Four Bouquets and One Bonsai, Thousands of Feet Under the Sea
A botanical artist surrenders his work to the ocean
(The New York Times)

Nat Bowen Cover Story
Vibrant and alive, prismatic and textural, the abstract artist’s work brings color to life layer by layer.
(Luxury Magazine, cover story)

Color Her World
The ocean, the human experience, and the ever-expansive vision of photographer Andrea Hamilton
(Luxury Magazine, cover story)

Perfect Place
Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Afterlife: A long-distance chat with Lorde
(Billboard, cover story)

Some Girls
Keith Richards on the genesis of three songs
(Harper’s Bazaar)






Background


I am a storyteller, journalist, and screenwriter who grew up on the outskirts of a town named Boring in rural Maryland.

My career has been guided mostly by curiosity. I’ve gotten chefs and musicians to let me interview them as they’ve battered chicken-fried pork. I’ve tagged along with artists in search of precious obsidian glass, and have spent entire days on sod farms investigating where the ground we stand on at music festivals comes from. I love asking questions and I love not knowing where the answers will lead.

My writing has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, GQ, Variety, and Longreads among other outlets, and my essays have been finalists in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and the New Millennium Writing Awards. My first feature-length film, THE OFFER, is a magical-realist thriller that is currently in pre-production with Killer Films (Past Lives, Carol, Still Alice).

Prior to freelancing, I spent a decade steeped in the world of magazine editing, working as the Senior Features Editor at Harper’s Bazaar, and as a Senior Associate Editor at Billboard. I was mentored by the late Vanity Fair contributing editor Patricia Bosworth, who quite literally invited me into “the party” of life as a writer (she threw the best literary shindigs at her Hells Kitchen apartment). She was wonderful and generous, and a true teacher.  

Most of my time is spent in Maryland, a place I love for its fern-tessellated forests and for the way its green summers seem to reach back into deep time. If I sneak away, it’s often to the wild, unmoored beaches of Galicia on the western coast of Spain. That nook of the world is something of a soul home for me.  





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Sound + Central Visual recorded at a brook in front of my paternal great grandmother Julia’s home in Kam'yanytsya, Ukraine.

Handwriting from my maternal grandmother, Pearl.
Brooke.Victoria.Mazurek@gmail.com