Magazine and Newspaper Writing

New York Times Magazine
“Geekdom Revisited.” July 31, 2011.

Redbook
“Bad in a Good Way.” April 2011.

New York Times Book Review
“Cheerful Debauchery: Dropped Names“ by Frank Langella. April 22, 2012.
“Life Onstage with John Lithgow and Hal Holbrook.” September 30, 2011.
“Good Stuff: A Daughter Remembers Cary Grant.” June 3, 2011.
“Furous Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century” by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger. July 30, 2010
“Hollywood Chronicle: Tony Curtis, Clint Eastwood, Chris Welles, Charles Higham.” December 6, 2009.
“Non-Fiction Chronicle: Gideon, Reid, Knoedelseder, Rosenblum” September 17, 2009.
“Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography” by Andrew Morton. February 17, 2009
“Hollywood Chronicle” December 7, 2008
“Clark Gable: Tormented Star” by David Bret. March 30, 2008
“Fiction Chronicle” December 2, 2007
“Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front.” by Susan Seligson. Apr 1, 2007
“The Interpretation of Murder” by Jed Rubenfeld. September 17, 2006
“Sin in the Second City” by Karen Abbott. August 12, 2007
“The Best Seat in the House” by Allen Rucker. January 21, 2007
“Natural Selection” by Gary Giddins. August 27, 2006
“The Pale Blue Eye” by Louis Bayard. July 9, 2006
“A Plea for Eros” by Siri Hustvedt. February 19, 2006
“Honky Tonk Parade” by John Lahr. January 29, 2006
“I’m No Saint” by Elizabeth Hayt. December 25, 2005
“The Diamond” by Julie Baumgold. December 4, 2005
“Wild Girls” by Diana Souhami. November 13, 2005
“In the Fold” by Rachel Cusk. October 16, 2005
“Fiction Chronicle” August 14, 2005

Time and Time.com
“The Small School That Mints Grammy Winners.” February 11, 2011.
“I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant: Travesty or Guilty Pleasure?” January 12, 2010.
“All the Single Babies: Why Do Tots Love Beyoncé?” October 15, 2009.
“Cash for Clunkers: Demolition Derbies Hard Up for Cars.” September 3, 2009. [Picked up by The Daily Show, November 11, 2009. Watch here.]
“Moms Who Drink: No Joke After the Schuler Tragedy.” August 11, 2009.
“Salma Hayek, Breastfeeding, and One Very Public Service.” Feb.12, 2009.
“Facebook’s War on Nipples.” December 31, 2008.
“Giving Birth at Home.” August 7, 2008.
“I‘ve Got a Mean Left Rook: First Person with the World’s Chess-Boxing Champion” and “Chess-Boxing Hits it Big.” July 10, 2008.

The Los Angeles Times
“Geocaching is Fun Hidden in Plain Sight.” March 18, 2012.
“Fred’s Lucas Cruikshank is Building a Tween Empire.” September 16, 2010.
“Is Tween TV Skewed Toward Girls? March 27, 2010.

New York Post
Reported on 65 stories in 2010. Complete list here.
Sample: “Diplomat Daughter’s Whirlwind Life Was One Big Binge.” and “Teen in Death Plummet.” August 28, 2010.

New York magazine and NYMag.com
“43 Minutes with Margaret Cho.” November 7, 2010. And the Vulture Transcript. November 3, 2010.
“Pop Culture Is Still Popular.” September 2, 2009.
Reviews Archive 2004-2005
“Pack up Your Pasties.” September 24, 2007
“Avenue Q Took the Tony and Ran.” May 21, 2005.
“Company Man: Philip Seymour Hoffman.” May 21, 2005.
“Eve Ensler Should Be My Hero.” November 14, 2004
“Bryony Lavery and John Patrick Shanley.” September 6, 2004
“Did You Hear the One About The &@^#*@ Comic?” March 29, 2004
“Liza with a K: Karen Finley” July 14, 2003
“The Show Goes Downtown” May 5, 2003
“A Real Stand-Up Guy: Eddie Izzard” March 10, 2003
“Art Rocker: Kathleen Hanna” November 11, 2002.

Salon.com
“I Can Find Out So Much About You.” January 18, 2011.
“The Discovery Channel Gunman Hated ‘Jon and Kate’ Too.” September 2, 2010.
“Going Off Antidepressants Turned Me Into a Nymphomaniac.” July 7, 2010
“The Reliable Hysteria Over Little Girls Gone Wild.”  June 14, 2010
“The Battle Over Cry-It-Out Sleep Training.” March 17, 2010
“I’m a Closet Christian.” December 22, 2009
“What I Wouldn’t Do For My Cat: After shelling out $1,300 on a vet bill, I had to wonder: How much is too much to pay for your pet?” February 8, 2008.
“Spirit of Success.” Christine Ebersole profile. June 5, 2007.

Nerve.com
“Political Partners: The Obamas vs. the Clintons.” February 4, 2008.
“Hitting Slump: Today’s Baseball Players are Sexually Repressed. Groupies Mourn.” April 9, 2007.
“Gods of New York: Sandman’s Endless Control Men’s Lives. Teenage Girls Can Relate.” February 5, 2007.
“The New Prudishness: No more punditry about our ‘oversexed’ culture.” January 9, 2007.
“Here You Come Again: Dolly Parton is Ready for a Comeback — as a Sexual Role Model.” October 2, 2006.
“The Third-Wave Feminist Mystique.” May 18, 2006. Anthologized in One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers. Edited by Tara McKelvey. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. (Seal Press, paper, $15.95.). “The standout essay is by Ada Calhoun, the editor in chief at Babble.com. It’s about distinguishing good from bad kinds of empowerment. Calhoun reflects on a photograph of Jennifer Scala, an Abu Ghraib guard, shown carrying an obscenely titled book by Inga Muscio into a courtroom. The book, Calhoun says, incorporates ideas, in grossly degraded form, from a feminist ‘zinefest’ subculture that had inspired her in her youth. Muscio is a ‘fanatic,’ Calhoun writes, because she places ‘political ends’ over what should be feminism’s ethical touchstone, ‘human decency.’” Mick Sussman, New York Times Book Review. April 27, 2007.
“Point of No Return. November 15, 2005.
“Cult Worship: Too Cool for Sex.” February 14, 2005.
“Being Myrna Loy” Screening Room 2005.
“Bride and Prejudice.” May 24, 2004.
“Weird Science: A Test Subject for the New ‘Female Viagra’ Tells All.” February 15, 2001.

New York Times Arts & Leisure
“The Rosenbach Company: Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy’s Strange Musical.” April 2, 2006.
“She Barely Even Looks Like Paul Robeson: Kate Valk in The Emperor Jones.” March 12, 2006.
“The Little Company That Could: One Troupe’s Journey on the Rocky Road That Is Off-Off Broadway.” April 21, 2005.
“Psychedelic Hoop Dreams Drive a Show-Biz Pair.” March 20, 2005.
“Supercalanormalistic: Jo Frost of Supernanny.” October 16, 2005.
“Auditions: The Do’s, the Don’ts, the Sheer Terror.” September 4, 2005.
“Managing Risk, the Downtown Way: Richard Foreman.” January 23, 2005.
“The New Hudson River School.” December 19, 2004.
“Where Musical-Makers Audition Their Ideas: the BMI Workshop.” November 28, 2004.
“Still Mad at the Method and Its Gurus: Arthur Miller.” October 3, 2004.
“Stepping Into a Battle for Survival: Two Takes on Bug.” September 26, 2004.
“Swan Songs as a Duo Plan Life’s Second Act: Kiki and Herb.” September 14, 2004.
“Sending Up the Downtown Life: Mike Albo.” August 21, 2004.

Essays in Anthologies
“Middle Ground” in Nerve: The First Ten Years. Chronicle Books, 2008.
“The Third Wave Feminist Mystique” in One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Tormenters. Seal Press, 2006.
“Weird Science” in The KGB Bar Non Fiction Reader. Nation Books, 2004.
“Jonathan Edwards” in American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats and Plutocrats. Basic Books, 2004.