Selected:
The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes for The Atlantic
My Life is a Perfect #10YearChallenge Story— but it Doesn’t Fit Neatly Into a “Before” and “After” for Buzzfeed
Why Are People Obsessed With Proving That Celebrities Are Secretly In Love? for Buzzfeed
In Defense of Pettiness for The Hairpin
More Than the Beauty or the Heroine for LitHub
NK Jemisin Makes Cities (Literally) Live and Breathe for The LA Times
The Women Writers You’ve Been Overlooking for The Paris Review Daily
Plus:
The Real Reason the Girls Finale Was So Disappointing for Allure
The Peculiar Sadness of Cartoon Alcoholics for The Awl
The Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory That She is Secretly Gay for Broadly
How Three Shocking Fights Changed Reality TV Forever for BuzzFeed
“You” Doesn’t Capture the Sad Truth About LA for BuzzFeed
It’s Time to Cancel Vanderpump Rules for BuzzFeed
At Tom Tom, Everyone Wants a Taste of Reality TV for BuzzFeed
The Power of an Imperfect Didion for The Cut
Watching UnREAL Actually Turned Me Into a Bachelor/ette Fan for Elle
What Each Daria Character Would Be Up To Now for Elle
Female detectives and television and rape narratives for The Hairpin
Why Are We So Obsessed With Making Healthy Desserts? for Healthyish
From Pomona to Oakland, how a skater mapped California block by block from his board for The LA Times
This tender, original queer YA novel will likely be banned. That’s not why you should read it, for The LA Times
Review: What are books for? A novelist goes beyond the hot takes for The LA Times
12 Iconic LA Spots to Bask In a Great Read— And Book Pairings to Match for The LA Times
What it’s really like to grow up Black among the white elite, in two bracing books for The LA Times
4 new books bring context to brutal California fire season for The LA Times
Just in time for global distress, astrology hits the bookshelves for The LA Times
The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace for LitHub
Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont for LitHub
The Joy and Intimacy of the Personal Writing Outlet for LitHub
Two Directions for MEL Magazine
There is No Such Thing as the Young Adult Novel for The Millions
A Matter of Taste: Book Review for Modern Farmer
In Defense of Celebrity Feminism for The New Republic
How Eve Babitz and Francesca Lia Block Made Los Angeles Literary for The New Republic
What “Cult” Means When it Comes to Beauty Products for Racked
Dressing Like the Direction for Racked
One Direction’s Last Concert and the Boyband Expiration Date for Racked
How Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Destroyed the Show– and Built Something Better for Screener TV
On Hild and Being a Woman Who Loves Genre Fiction The Toast
Impractical Loves: On Kristin Cashore’s Jane, Unlimited and Fan Fiction for Unbound Worlds
On ‘Heard it in a Past Life,’ Maggie Rogers Spins Pop Songs Into Revelations for Uproxx
I Love Dick, Harry Styles, and the Gender Double Standard of Muses for The Washington Post