Selected Articles

• I like to spend the night on the beach (New York Times. 2003)
• I name–or get one of my neighbors to name–my New York City apartment building (New York Times, 1994)
• I peddle difficult-to-sell books on the sidewalk (New York Times Book Review, 2006)
• My boyfriend moves in (New York Times, 2007)
• I test-drive fashion designer Ermenegildo Zegna’s new solar-powered jacket (New Yorker, 2007)
• What if Paris Hilton were the president of the United States? (Vanity Fair, 2004)
• I imagine what it sounds like when cabdrivers in England recite W.H. Auden poetry to celebrate Auden’s birthday (New Yorker, 2007)
• I imagine Nigella Lawson’s recipes for summer (New Yorker, 2003)
• “My Exes: The Set Lists” (New Yorker, 2005)
• Dictionary editors sometimes include fake, made-up words in dictionaries! (New Yorker, 2005)
• I visit the volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island (Travel and Leisure, 2006)
• I walk around New York City wearing my pajamas (New York Times, 1995)
• I cook dinner for a week using food bought at 99 Cent stores (New York Times, 2008)
• Tel Aviv! (New York Times, 2008)
• Jean Paul Gaultier’s Paris (New York Times, 2008)
• A review of “I Like You,” by Amy Sedaris (New York Times Book Review, 2006)
• A review of “The Historian,” by Elizabeth Kostova (New York Times Book Review, 2005)