Selected Writings

Featured
"From Jazz Age Renegade to Best-Selling Chronicler of Women’s Lives"
"The Discreet Charm of a Flask"
"What the Sofa Said"
"Fighting Harassers and Stalkers on the Web, in Court and in Print"
"The Equivocal Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
"Who Bought Sylvia Plath's Stuff?"
Review of "Difficult Women," by David Plante
"Sight and Insight in the California Desert"
"How I Helped My Best Male Friend Pick a Custom Wedding Suit"
Review of 4 Essay Collections
Review of "Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life," by Ruth Franklin
Review of "The Springs of Affection," by Maeve Brennan
"Afterlives: My Mother's Breast Cancer, and My Own"
"Plum Island's Pink House Inspires a Real Estate Fantasy"
Review of "Dear Mr. You," by Mary-Louise Parker
Review of "The Witches: Salem, 1692," by Stacy Schiff
"How To Spend Time Alone"
Excerpt from SPINSTER: "What Would Life Look Like If Marriage Was a Maybe Thing?"
"Should You Have a Baby On Your Own? Exploring the Ranks of DIY Motherhood"
Review of "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision NOT to Have Kids," edited by Meghan Daum
"Why Having an Affair Was the Best Mistake I Ever Made"
"Guesthouse of Mirth"
"This is 40"
Review of "New Life, No Instructions," by Gail Caldwell
"Design Inspiration from Painter Frida Kahlo's Home"
"Where the Past Is Ever In Stock"
"Is Marriage Dead?"
"Working Girl"
"The Comfort Revolution"
"Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue's Edith Wharton Spread?"