(selected) miscellaneous writing

 
 

The Truth/”Happy, Happy” (listen to the podcast episode)

Slate/I Was in a Music Rut. I Blame the Algorithm. I Found a Simple Way to Break Out Of It.

Slate/Get a Membership to Your Local Movie Theater

Slate/The Joy of Cable — Without the Bill

Hell Gate/I Don’t Bike in NYC. Do I Not Still Deserve to Find Love?

Hello Gloria/Writing Romance as a Non-Romantic

Hello Gloria/You Don’t Have to Be Married to Send Holiday Cards

Glamour/Does Vanessa Hudgens Really ‘Deserve’ Credit for Austin Butler's Success?

InStyle/The Girlboss Complex Has a Miranda Priestley Problem

InStyle/Instagram Perfection Is Over: Welcome to the “Shitty Craft” Era

InStyle/The Break-up That Broke Me: Jon Hamm & Jennifer Westfeldt

Shondaland/Why Do Rom Coms Still Treat Turning 30 as a Death Sentence?

Alma/Let Me Teach Daisy Edgar-Jones How to Be Jewish

Alma/There Isn’t Going to Be Another Nora Ephron

Alma/The Best Jewish Rom Coms, Ranked

Alma/Why Is This “Rebellious Jew” Sending His Book About Finding Jesus to Random Jews?

Alma/What Does Your Bat Mitzvah Theme Say About You As An Adult?

Vulture/The Past Is Ever-Present in Season 4 of BoJack Horseman

Vulture/The Struggle to Maintain a Comedy-Work-Fitness Life Balance

Mental Floss/A Simple Twist of Fate: The Surprising Connection Between Bob Dylan and Nora Ephron

Mental Floss/Memorable Events That Happened on September 21 - The Internet’s Favorite Day

Mental Floss/August Musger: The Priest and Physicist Who Invented Slow Motion

Mental Floss/Why Is Breathing More Difficult When We’re Stressed?

Mental Floss/Why Do We Say the Broken-Hearted “Carry a Torch” for Someone?

Mental Floss/Why Is LA Traffic So Awful?

The Black List Blog/Essential Dance Films: Lana Schwartz on the dichotomy of “good girls” and “bad boys” in dance films