Bill Flanagan (born January 14, 1955)[citation needed] is an American author, television executive and radio host.

His books include Written in My Soul (1986), Last of the Moe Haircuts (1986), U2 at the End of the World (1995), and the novels A&R (2000), New Bedlam (2007), Evening's Empire (2010), and Fifty in Reverse[1] (2020).

As EVP/Editorial Director of MTV Networks, Flanagan oversaw the series VH1 Storytellers and CMT Crossroads.

Flanagan acts as Ombudsman of the Sundance Channel series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with....

He has written for Rolling Stone,[10] The New York Times,[11] Esquire, Spy, Men's Journal, Vanity Fair, GQ, Commonweal, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice.