GENERAL INTEREST
Why Women Apologize and Should Stop
June 23, 2015—New York Times
The U.S. Open, the Toughest Ticket in Town
September 3, 2015—The New York Times
Essay: The Sisters Issue
May 2016—Vanity Fair
Identity Confusions Arise On The Set of Gossip Girl
June 2012—The Believer
Spotlight: Waitress: The Musical
April 2016—Vanity Fair
Relative Stranger
April 2018—Esquire Magazine
My Proud Paper Show
August 24, 2010—Salon
On The Move: Three Books to Keep Out of The Boxes
April 21, 2013—NPR
It's Time To Cut Barbie a Little Slack
November 23, 2013—Smithsonian
Why Hollywood Gets The Publishing Industry Wrong
January 2019—The New York Times Book Review
Essay on Joy
March 2024—Harper’s Bazaar
Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a Novel
March 2020—New York Times Book Review
Did You Know?: Essay on Grief
February 2024—The Los Angeles Times
The 21st-Century American Prom
April 2012—The Smithsonian
50 Years of Breakfast In A Little Black Dress
October 5, 2011—NPR
Why the Right Can’t Derail the Girl Scouts
August 3, 2013—Salon
Novel Dysmorphia
October 1, 2015—LitHub
The Women Playwrights Giving Broadway a Moral Compass
April 2017—Vanity Fair
Don't Make a Scene of the Crime
March 2012—GQ
Insomnia and Me
April 18, 2014—The Guardian
How to Start Your Candy-Cane Collection in 23 Easy Steps
December 19, 2011—Vanity Fair
Let Me Sum Up
2018—The Princess Bride for The Criterion Collection
They Stay The Same Age: From “Lolita in The Afterlife” (Vintage Books, 2021)
On AI
November 2023—The Washington Post
What She Said—On Weddings
June 2010—GQ
On Death, Dying and One Long Text Exchange
June 2020—Vanity Fair
Politics of The Oscars
March 4, 2018—Los Angeles Times
More Like You
May 2018—The Los Angeles Review of Books
Heathers: What’s Your Damage?
December 2023—Galerie
The Question of The Question Mark
May 24, 2010—Publisher's Weekly
20 Years of Gmail
April 2024—New York Magazine
On White Plains' Unique Personality
June, 2014—Westchester Magazine
New Year's Eve
December 31, 2017—Sunday Times London
Criterion Clues: Kicking Obsessive Finds Truths on DVD
January 29, 2007—The New York Observer
Call It the New Junk Mail
December 2010—GQ
Under The Influence—On Parents
March 2009—Teen Vogue
The First Cut
February 25, 2013—Medium
The Doctor is A Woman
March 26, 2018—New York Magazine
Sorry Not Sorry
March 2018—Playboy
The Virtues of Shelf-lessness
August 2018—The New York Times Book Review
Friendship: Nothing in Common
October 25, 2011—More
Special Report: Weight Monitoring. The Student Body.
March 2008—Teen Vogue
25 Years Later, It Turns Out Phoebe Was The Best Friend
September 2019—The New York Times
Diary, 1999
June 2022—The Paris Review
Once Upon A Life
July 24, 2010—The Guardian
On Crying (from the book “Sad Happens”)
November 2023—The Guardian
Writer's Fridges
April 2018—The Paris Review
Bye bye, Hotmail
July 2013—Glamour UK
Tech Glitches
April 2023—The Guardian
What Happens When You Ignore The Signs
November 2015—Cosmopolitan
Farewell to 2020
December 2020—InStyle Magazine
The Case For Joking About Sexism
March 2018—InStyle
A Writer’s Retreat
October 2020—Criterion