James O'Brien
James O'Brien holds a Ph.D. from the Editorial Institute at Boston University, where he researched Bob Dylan's other-than-song writings. He is engaged in research for Oxford University Press, developing the publisher's first annotated bibliography of writings about John Cassavetes and the filmmaker's works. O'Brien also writes about business, technology, social media, film, wine, and travel clients that include
The Atlantic,
Forbes, Mashable, and numerous online publishers.
The Nieman Journalism Lab has called his work in the branded-content space "sponsored content done right". He has been a correspondent for Boston University's
Research Magazine and from 2008–2012 he reported and wrote extensively as a news correspondent for
The Boston Globe. In 2012, he assisted the caption-research team as a consultant for photo-essayist Rick Smolan's
The Human Face of Big Data. His fiction and poetry appear most recently in
theNewerYork and in
Commas and Colons. New fiction is forthcoming in
Space and Time and in
Footnote. O’Brien's new book,
The Indie Writer's Survival Guide: DOs and DON'Ts of Full-Time Freelancing: Year One, is available from
SlimBooks and at
Amazon.com.