Ben Sisario is an American academic, author, and journalist.

Career

Sisario is a staff reporter for The New York Times, covering music and culture. He is also the author of Doolittle (2006), a non-fiction book in the 33⅓ series about the studio album Doolittle (1989) by the Pixies, an alternative-rock band. Sisario is a contributor to Blender, New York, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York City public-radio station WFUV and The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music critics' poll. He is a member of the teaching faculty at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, instructing courses on Rock Music in Historical Context and Writing for Popular Music.