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Rob Sheffield (born February 2, 1966) is an American music journalist and author.
He is a long time contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing about music, TV, and pop culture. Previously, he was a contributing editor at Blender, Spin and Details magazines. A native of Boston, Sheffield attended Yale and the University of Virginia.
His first book, Love is a Mix Tape (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), was released by Random House in January 2007. It was met with much acclaim and was a national bestseller.
Sheffield lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sheffield's second book, released in July 2010, is called Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.
Sheffield's third book, released in August 2013, is called Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke.