Leslie Savan

A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for her Village Voice column about advertising, Savan is the author of Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and, Like...Whatever and The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. She blogs regularly for The Nation about media and politics and has been widely published, including in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Mother Jones, and Huffington Post. Savan appears in the documentaries Helvetica and Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (Netflix). The Sponsored Life was the solution to the Sept. 18, 2016, New York Times Acrostic Puzzle.