GENERAL INTEREST
Why Hollywood Gets The Publishing Industry Wrong
January 2019—The New York Times Book Review
The Tail End
August 2024—The New Yorker
I Wrote a Memoir About Grief. That Was the Beginning.
December 2024—The New York Times
The Sisters Issue
May 2016—Vanity Fair
Why Women Apologize
June 2015—New York Times
Someone Who Knew Me When
April 2025—Essay for A24
They Stay The Same Age: From “Lolita in The Afterlife” (Vintage Books, 2021)
Identity Confusions Arise On The Set of Gossip Girl
June 2012—The Believer
Relative Stranger
April 2018—Esquire Magazine
The Toughest Ticket in Town
September 2015—The New York Times
Waitress: The Musical
April 2016—Vanity Fair
On The Move: Three Books to Keep Out of The Boxes
April 2013—NPR
On Death, Dying and Text
June 2020—Vanity Fair
Let Me Sum Up
2018—The Princess Bride for The Criterion Collection
On AI
November 2023—The Washington Post
Heathers: What’s Your Damage?
December 2023—Galerie
20 Years of Gmail
April 2024—New York Magazine
In Loving Memory
July 2024—Galerie
A Retreat
October 2020—Criterion
Paper Show
August 2010—Salon
New Year's Eve
December 2017—Sunday Times London
Oh, Make Me Over
September 2024—Galerie
On The Decline
March 2025—LitHub
Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a Novel
March 2020—New York Times Book Review
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown
November 2024—The New Yorker
Essay on Joy
March 2024—Harper’s Bazaar
The 21st-Century American Prom
April 2012—The Smithsonian
Did You Know?: Essay on Grief
February 2024—The Los Angeles Times
The Playwrights Giving Broadway a Moral Compass
April 2017—Vanity Fair
50 Years of Breakfast In A Little Black Dress
October 2011—NPR
The Doctor is A Woman
March 26, 2018—New York Magazine
Why the Right Can’t Derail the Girl Scouts
August 2013—Salon
The Virtues of Shelf-lessness
August 2018—The New York Times Book Review
Novel Dysmorphia
October 2015—LitHub
On Insomnia
April 2014—The Guardian
Candy-Cane Collection
December 2011—Vanity Fair
The First Cut
February 2013—Medium
A Scene of the Crime
March 2012—GQ
It's Time To Cut Barbie a Little Slack
November 2013—Smithsonian
25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was The Best Friend
September 2019—The New York Times
Sorry Not Sorry
March 2018—Playboy
Politics of The Oscars
March 2018—Los Angeles Times
Diary, 1999
June 2022—The Paris Review
On Weddings
June 2010—GQ
On Crying (from the book “Sad Happens”)
November 2023—The Guardian
Criterion Clues
January 2007—The New York Observer
The Signs
November 2015—Cosmopolitan
Once Upon A Life
July 2010—The Guardian