Steven Rea is an American journalist, film critic, web producer, and writer.
16 Facts About Steven Rea
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Steven Rea was a film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1992 through late 2016.
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Steven Rea is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York.
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Steven Rea went to the West Coast for college, earning an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
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Steven Rea attended the Writers Workshop graduate program at the University of Iowa.
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Steven Rea has written for multiple publications since 1975, as well as working for major record labels such as Island Records.
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Steven Rea became one of its film critics in 1992 and left that post in late 2016.
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Steven Rea was an adjunct professor in the Cinema and Television program at the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University.
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Steven Rea served on the Narrative Features jury of the 2012 Florida Film Festival and the FIPRESCI jury at the 2014 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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Steven Rea is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
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Steven Rea is the author of Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars, an expansion on his blog featuring photos of stars riding bikes, in which Steven Rea explores his obsession with the details of these images and stARS.
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Steven Rea later published Hollywood Cafe: Coffee With The Stars, which was favorably covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Metro US, and numerous other publications and websites.
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Steven Rea is the curator of the Tumblr blog, Rides a Bike.
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Additionally, Steven Rea has worked as an editor and written fiction.
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Steven Rea's poetry has been published in The Paris Review and The New York Quarterly.
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Steven Rea lived in Los Angeles at the start of his career, but he and his wife have long resided in Center City, Philadelphia.