Matt Zoller Seitz is editor-at-large atRogerEbert.com,[3] and the television critic forNew York magazine and Vulture.com, as well as a member oftheGeorge Foster Peabody Awards[4] board of jurors. He was previously a television critic atSalon.com andThe Newark Star Ledger, and a film critic forThe New York Times. Prior to this he was a regular media columnist for theDallas Observer. He founded the film and media criticism blogThe House Next Door. Zoller Seitz is known as a leader in the creation of video essays, frequently featured onMoving Image Source[5] andThe L Magazine,[6] and served as the publisher ofPressPlay, a site for video-based film and television criticism. He was a finalist for the 1994Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.[7]
Zoller Seitz's second book,TheWes Anderson Collection, was published byAbrams Books in 2013.[8] In February 2015,The Wes Anderson Collection:The Grand Budapest Hotel was published by Abrams Books.The Wes Anderson Collection was praised for its design and layout, which was intended to suggest the look and feel of an Anderson film and suggest that the reader was being taken on a tour of the filmmaker's imagination. "This book is the future," wrote Michael Sicinski inCineaste.[9]
Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion written by Zoller Seitz and with illustrations by Max Dalton was published by Abrams Books in November 2015.
His latest book,The Press Gang, co-written with Godfrey Cheshire andArmond White and published bySeven Stories Press in 2020, is a compilation of Zoller Seitz's long-form film criticism written in the alternative weeklyNew York Press during the late 1990s and early 2000s.[10]
Zoller Seitz grew up primarily inDallas.[2] He was the son of jazz pianist David Zoller (1941–2020).[12][13]
Zoller Seitz was married to Jennifer Dawson from 1994 until her death on April 27, 2006. They had two children, Hannah and James Seitz.[1][14] He married his second wife, Nancy Dawson, who was his first wife's sister and the ex-wife of his step-father's son Richard,[15][16] in February 2017.[17] They divided their time betweenBay Ridge, Brooklyn andCincinnati.[18][19] Nancy Dawson died of cancer on April 27, 2020. Zoller Seitz's father died in November of that year, and his mother in April 2021.[13][20] Zoller Seitz wrote extensively about his personal experiences with grief and loss in a series of articles published on RogerEbert.com.[21]
^Sepinwall, Alan (April 28, 2006)."Sad, Sad News".The House Next Door.Slant Magazine.Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. RetrievedJuly 23, 2015.
