Published Work

Ellen Willis rocked. Read why in the new anthology of her music writing.

May 8, 2011

I wrote a short review of Out of the Vinyl Deeps for the music issue of Elle (May 2011).

Guy Friend: The Other Kind of Boyfriend

February 14, 2011

This one’s for the (other) men in my life! I wrote a fun feature for the March 2011 issue of Women’s Health magazine about the joys of having guys as friends.

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Clock Watcher: my article in February ELLE

January 18, 2011

Is there a biological explanation behind sudden-onset baby lust? How do we know when it’s time to get pregnant? We’ve heard so much about the biological clock, but not much about the alarm mechanism that’s supposed to let us know this thing is working. Concerned about my ambivalent feelings about babies and motherhood, I decided to further explore baby lust. I wrote about my findings in an article for ELLE called “Clock Watcher” (February 2011).

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Marry or Burn by Valerie Trueblood

November 3, 2010

In her outstanding new collection of short stories, Marry or Burn, Valerie Trueblood uses the threads of familiar topics—love, marriage, separation, general angst—to spin affecting, utterly unexpected yarns.

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Confessions of a Facebook Stalker

October 11, 2010

When it comes to checking up on an ex online, it’s just so darn easy to let our fingers do the stalking. I’d read a lot about how Facebook-stalking can become a dangerous and demoralizing activity, but I had a hunch that it might also help some of us get over past relationships. Well, according to the experts I talked to, it can go either way. My story’s at ELLE.com.

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The most important Q&A I’ve ever done.

June 29, 2010

I interviewed Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation, about the difficulties of raising a child in the US, and why unmarried and childless women should care.

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The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman

June 29, 2010

Allegra Goodman has been compared to George Eliot and Jane Austen. Her new novel, The Cookbook Collector (Dial), is enormously satisfying and well worth the investment.

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Writing makes me hungry. Writing about diets made me hungrier.

June 9, 2010

Exploring satiety for ELLE’s Body Issue (June 2010) helped change my perspective on why and how we eat.

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Hooray for May: two eco-minded stories in ELLE and BUST

May 11, 2010

In BUST, I interviewed the Guide Girls, a pair of offbeat environmentalists. In ELLE , I talked to five young environmentalists who, only a quarter of a century old, are already gold stars.

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Body Issues

March 11, 2010

Marina Abramovic’s New MoMA Retrospective The performance artist has made a career out of enduring the kind of physical and mental torment that would make any person’s toes curl. ELLE, March 2010

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