Expatriate Detroiter Mike Rubin is a writer living in Brooklyn. His work currently appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, Red Bull Music Academy, and Victory Journal. From 1994 to 2003 he was a senior contributing writer at SPIN, and his work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, GQ, and The Village Voice. Since 1987 he has been one of the editors of Motorbooty, a Detroit-based, independently published satirical journal which has been described as "the only good fanzine in America" and "the Spy of the rock world." He is currently at work on his first book.