shapeshifting
Almost exactly three years ago now, I started taking Lexapro for what had become an endless, unmanageable episode of anxiety and depression. Therapists had...
great success
(Before we begin, let's all take a moment to pause and reflect on how, when I was a freshman in college, watching Da Ali G Show DVDs was still considered a...
women, various
A few weeks ago I was in Mexico for work and everyone kept saying that my job seemed pretty nice. It is-- it is (sometimes) very nice. It is very nice when...
behind the scenes
Last week I sat in beautiful rooms with very beautiful, very young women and asked them very simple questions. "Why did you want to partner with this brand?"...
girl stuff
I feel like I've been very moody on Tinyletter this summer, so I have to report that basically everything that's happened since the last time I wrote to you...
like no one's watching
There are a couple of stories about Comic Con that, if I told them correctly, I think would illustrate something about how power works. Like, for instance,...
look!
My next book has a cover. It also has some flap copy, in case you were wondering about what will be on its pages: Things Lulu Shapiro’s 5,000 Flash followers...
murder
I interviewed the author of a new book about Charles Manson and the summer of 1969 for Longreads. I am, in general, deeply over treating serial killers like...
eternal return
pretty much all I have to say about vacation is that I wish I was still on it But I am back, and you can read a conversation I had with Glynnis MacNicol...
as we watch it melt
This sounds like something I would write in a book, but it happens to be true that I remember very precisely the first night I ever felt like a teenager. It...
wearing your cologne
I don't think Billie Eilish's music is good, per se, but every time I hear one of her songs on the radio I feel this thing that I realized, the other night,...
managing
So I'm going on vacation in May. It's the kind of thing there's no way to talk about without sounding-- I mean, we're going to Paris, and then to a Greek...
fried
That's the state of my brain right now, which has been on short deadlines for big projects basically since we kicked off 2019. So there's nothing in this...
parts
Yesterday my car was in the shop again, for the second time this year. First thing in January it needed a new oxygen sensor and something else-- I forget...
that thing
A conversation I have pretty often is that someone asks what my books are about, and I say, "One is about a girl who falls in love with a guy in a band and...
measuring up
Earlier this week I went bra shopping for the first time in years. I mean, years. Turns out I'm a D cup! Who knew, right? I spent a totally insane amount of...
recitation
In Joshua Tree I kept thinking, "when I write about this," and then, "I'm not going to write about this." I had left my phone in the glove compartment of my...
composed
In the last week or so I've been seeing the edges of a conversation on Twitter about Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and how the lyrics "through the...
bibliography
Probably the most important thing I read this year were three words at the end of my best friend's novel. Works Not Cited, she had written, and then a list...
earned
Let me start by saying: thank you. If you sent me $12 thank you, and if you sent more thank you, and if you sent less, or nothing, thank you for not just...