I grew up in Larchmont, New York, with my mom, Shelly, and my father, Bob. Then I went to Wesleyan University where I studied American literature and critical theory. For a while, I really wanted to be a professor, but I got over it.
After college I worked briefly for Planned Parenthood, but they fired me after just one week because I am an extremely poor typist. Almost immediately thereafter, I was hired at New York magazine. As a typist. I kept typing there for twelve years.
In 2008, I became a staff writer at The New Yorker.
My first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, is now out in paperback, and has been translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Lately I've been going to a lot of universities to talk about FCP, and I've also appeared on The Colbert Report (click to watch), Oprah, and NPR's Fresh Air. In the new anthology Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, I have an essay called "Cheating."
You can send me an email here.
You can book a speaking engagement through Tom Neilssen at BrightSight group.
After college I worked briefly for Planned Parenthood, but they fired me after just one week because I am an extremely poor typist. Almost immediately thereafter, I was hired at New York magazine. As a typist. I kept typing there for twelve years.
In 2008, I became a staff writer at The New Yorker.
My first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, is now out in paperback, and has been translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Lately I've been going to a lot of universities to talk about FCP, and I've also appeared on The Colbert Report (click to watch), Oprah, and NPR's Fresh Air. In the new anthology Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, I have an essay called "Cheating."
You can send me an email here.
You can book a speaking engagement through Tom Neilssen at BrightSight group.
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