He became music critic of Time magazine in the spring of 1981,[2] where his cover story subjects included James Levine, Vladimir Horowitz and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
He was also a foreign correspondent for the magazine from 1989 to 1996, based in Munich, Germany, from which city he covered first-hand the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.
His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, Playboy, Smithsonian Magazine, and Connoisseur; in Europe, he has been published in Transatlantik, Die Woche, and the British edition of Esquire.
[citation needed] His literary works have been translated into more than twenty languages, including German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese.
A lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, Walsh has written Hard Headed Woman, a biopic of the rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson, for LD Entertainment, and 25/7 for Disney.