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Dec 19, 2024

Also a Poet is NYT Critic Alexandra Jacobs's Favorite Memoir of the Year

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Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

Literary Hub

metmuseum.org

Vogue

My gritty 1980s NYC childhood wasn’t idyllic—but it prepared me for life

New York Post

June 18, 2022

Guest Essay: Happy Father's Day to the Imperfect Fathers

New York Times Opinion

June 16, 2022

Seven Books Grappling With What Writers Leave Behind

The Atlantic

July 11, 2022

On 'Genius'

TIME

June 17, 2022

Letter of Recommendation: Frank O'Hara

New York Times Magazine

June 22, 2022

Ancestry Travel: Tracing a Family Tree Through England & Norway

Airbnb Magazine,

February 11, 2020

That Time Middle-aged Stars Got to Act Their Age

Dame,

January 07, 2020

What We Mean When We Say Marriage Is Work

The Cut,

January 22, 2018

Modern Love: To Stay Married, Embrace Change

The New York Times,

April 23, 2017

The Unruly Pleasures of the Mid-Manhattan Library

NewYorker.com,

February 22, 2016

What Went Wrong at St Mark’s Bookshop

NewYorker.com,

February 12, 2016

Op-Ed: My City Was Gone. (Or Was It?)

New York Times: Opinion,

November 01, 2015

The Many Lives of St. Marks Place

NewYorker.com,

October 30, 2015

(First Serial of St. Marks Is Dead.)

Call Me What You Will

O magazine, November 2015.

Modern Love: The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give

New York Times: Sunday Styles,

July 19, 2015

NYT follow-up with reader responses.

The Riots in Tompkins Square Park, Reenacted

New Yorker.com,

May 21, 2014

The Secret to Staying Friends in Your Thirties

NYMag.com,

April 21, 2015

Going Back Home: Unlocking the Secrets of Postresidency Stress Syndrome

Poets & Writers, February 2014.

Lives: Falling for Sprawl

New York Times Magazine,

August 25, 2013

Plus NYTM blog post: Writing Career as Revenge Fantasy.

Op-Ed: Rooting for Mother Teresa

New York Times: Opinion,

July 12, 2013

Christmas in Costume

New York Times: T Magazine,

December 02, 2012

Lives: Misery Games

New York Times Magazine,

October 21, 2012

Lives: Looted for Love

New York Times Magazine,

June 22, 2012

Lives: Geekdom Revisited

New York Times Magazine,

July 31, 2011

Reporting

The Shocking Reason Gen X Women Can't Sleep

New York Post

January 04, 2020

Gen-X Women Are Caught in a Generational Tug-of-War

The Atlantic

January 07, 2020

Gen X Women Get Less Sleep Than Any Other Generation

Time

January 06, 2020

The New York Origins of Vintage Fashion

New York magazine's The Cut,

November 22, 2017

The New Midlife Crisis

Oprah.com,

October 05, 2017

Judges Are Using Brain Science to Help Children Caught in the Courts System

Quartz,

November 27, 2015

Undertaken as a project for the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being and the National Health Journalism Fellowship, programs of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.

The Sisters Who Talked to Spirits

Narratively.com,

September 02, 2015

How a Dinner Between 2 Virginia Tech Students Ended in Murder

Cosmopolitan.com,

June 02, 2015

Bobby Shmurda Speaks Out About His Gang-Related Charges: ‘That Shit Is Bullshit

Billboard,

February 21, 2015

Also, see the exclusive Q&A from jail. February 8, 2015.

The Rise of DIY Abortions

The New Republic,

December 31, 2012

Idaho PDF

Mommy Had to Go Away for a While

New York Times Magazine,

April 25, 2012

Alabama PDF. Winner of the 2013 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Print Coverage of Family Issues.

Geocaching is Fun Hidden in Plain Sight

The Los Angeles Times,

March 18, 2012

Criticism

A Larger-Than-Life Poet and the Women in His Shadow

September 16, 2023

To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine

June 03, 2018

Troubled Waters: Chief Engineer

*Times Literary Supplement,

August 01, 2017

The Lonely City by Olivia Laing

March 20, 2016

Scream by Tama Janowitz

August 19, 2016

The Chelsea

Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins.

December 06, 2013

Downtown

The Village by John Strausbaugh.

June 02, 2013

Roger and Me

Long Shot by Mike Piazza.

April 05, 2013

Life Backstage

Drama by Raina Telgemeier.

August 26, 2012

Cheerful Debauchery

Dropped Names by Frank Langella.

April 22, 2012

Life Onstage with John Lithgow and Hal Holbrook

September 30, 2011

Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.

July 30, 2010

Good Stuff: A Daughter Remembers Cary Grant

June 03, 2011

Hollywood Chronicle: Tony Curtis, Clint Eastwood, Chris Welles, Charles Higham

December 06, 2009

Non-Fiction Chronicle

Gideon, Reid, Knoedelseder, Rosenblum.

September 17, 2009

Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography

By Andrew Morton.

Clark Gable: Tormented Star

By David Bret.

March 30, 2008

Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front

By Susan Seligson.

April 01, 2007

Sin in the Second City

By Karen Abbott.

August 12, 2007

The Best Seat in the House

By Allen Rucker.

January 21, 2007

The Interpretation of Murder

By Jed Rubenfeld.

By Gary Giddins.

By Louis Bayard.

By Siri Hustvedt.

By John Lahr.

By Elizabeth Hayt.

By Julie Baumgold.

By Diana Souhami.

By Rachel Cusk.

King of the Hill: Gotham Rising and In Pursuit of Privilege

*Times Literary Supplement

February 22, 2017

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