Tom Shone was both deputy literary editor and film critic of the Sunday Times, before being poached by Tina Brown as a staff writer on Talk magazine. He is the author of Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Simon & Schuster). In the Rooms is his first novel, publishedin the UK by Hutchinson in 2009, and in the US by St Martins Press in 2011. He is currently film critic of Intelligent Life, a contributer to The Guardian, Vogue, and New York, and teaches film history at NYU.
