Amanda Petrusich

Amanda Petrusich (born c. 1980) is an American music journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books: Pink Moon, It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (2008), and Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (2014).

Early life Petrusich was born circa 1980 and grew up in the New York area, the child of two public school teachers. Her paternal grandparents are Croatian immigrants. She attended the College of William & Mary, where she was co-editor-in-chief of the William and Mary Review and a reviewer for The Flat Hat, the college's campus newspaper. She graduated with a B.A. in English and film studies in 2000, then earned a master's in nonfiction writing from Columbia University in 2003. Petrusich has been a staff writer at Pitchfork since 2003, and is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Pink Moon, a book on Nick Drake's album of the same name for the 33 1/3 music series, Petrusich also wrote a book on record collecting called Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records.

Petrusich serves as clinical assistant professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU.

Petrusich won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. They have a daughter, born in 2021.

Essays and reporting

Culture Desk columns on newyorker.com

Postscript columns on newyorker.com

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