He heads the cultural section of the Nouvel Observateur, produces and hosts the radio programme Le Masque et la Plume [fr] on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française.

Jérôme Garcin was a pupil at the lycée Henri-IV in Paris before undertaking journalism studies.

In 1989, he succeeded Pierre Bouteiller to animate the show The Masque and the Plume of France Inter, of which he later became the producer.

He also holds the position of deputy director of the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur and collaborates with the newspaper Service littéraire [fr].

The son of Philippe Garcin, an editor at the Presses universitaires de France (PUF), who died at the age of 45 as a result of a horse accident,[2] He would dedicate him his first novel, La Chute de cheval, for which he was awarded the Prix Roger Nimier in 1998.