[3] In 1997, Streitfeld identified Joe Klein as Anonymous, the author of the bestselling book about the Clinton presidential campaign, Primary Colors.
Streitfeld, a book collector, spotted a galley proof, a pre-publication version of the novel, listed for sale in an antiquarian booksellers catalog.
The notion that the Post would one day be owned by the guy with the goofy laugh sitting in front of them was literally inconceivable.”[6] In 2001, Streitfeld joined the Los Angeles Times as a technology reporter, later switching to covering Enron, housing, and general economics.
[13] In August 2015, Streitfeld and New York Times colleague Jodi Kantor co-authored Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace.
He has edited collections by Gabriel García Márquez, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace.
[18] Streitfeld's longtime friendship with science fiction author Elizabeth Hand inspired her Nebula Award-winning short story Echo.