Eric Spitznagel

Eric Spitznagel is an American author, journalist, and editor. He is the author, editor, and/or ghost author of more than ten books, including his most recent, Rock Stars on the Record (2021).

Eric Spitznagel has written for dozens of magazines and websites over the past 30ish years. His words have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Men's Health, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Post, Details, MTV Hive, and The Believer, among many others.

Eric Spitznagel wrote Ron Jeremy’s bestselling autobiography The Hardest (Working) Man In Showbiz, a project that exhausted his literary reserve of penis puns. He also edited several humor anthologies, most recently Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?, which features questionable life advice from people like Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, and Dave Eggers.

His book Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past (2016), became a Hudson Booksellers Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.

Eric Spitznagel is currently an Executive Editor at AARP's The Arrow, a new digital newsletter for Gen-X guys.

He lives with his wife Kelly and son Charlie in Chicago.

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