good news for magazines: my extremely offline husband just asked me, “have you heard of an article about gooning by daniel kolitz?”
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good news for magazines: my extremely offline husband just asked me, “have you heard of an article about gooning by daniel kolitz?”
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for the new york times magazine, I wrote about people through objects that defined them: the recliner where Brian Wilson quieted his anxiety; the cross that Ozzy Osbourne’s welder dad made for him; how Kitty Dukakis defied convention through her wedding dress www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
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Editors: I have a fun Esses Magazine project in need of a Miami-based freelancer with extensive knowledge of the city/food/culture (racing expertise optional). Who knows somebody who fits the bill?
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I'm always for more transparency about how to make freelancing work! here's my income breakdown for this year:
48% writing (reporting)
40% academic/brand writing
10% event production
2% teaching
My pal and freelancer extraordinaire @charleylocke.bsky.social and I are working on a cool project to help other full-time freelancers and wanna-be full-time freelancers make it work financially, so STAY TUNED. 🤭
@greenwell.bsky.social wrote a real banger about the higher ed crisis we're often not talking about: what's happening to small, mid-tier liberal arts colleges. come for the dire truth, stay for the beautiful scene work www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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just called Kaiser's medical advice hotline and the nurse answered the phone by sneezing three times. astonishingly efficient role reversal: Nurse Patrick, how are YOU feeling today?
Cool perk of my beat though is that today I won bingo at senior housing
every time I forget how weird reporting trips are… traveling to go be as extroverted and emotionally engaged with strangers as possible, and in the off-time I’m like scarfing down a weird sandwich in a rental car and wandering around an anodyne/interchangeable motel room
I’m in line at jiffy lube and the teens sitting on a nearby bench are talking about how much they love the paris review. magazine culture is alive and well, folks, and it’s getting an oil change in portland.
Another great one from @wired.com's Generation iPad package: @charleylocke.bsky.social on the forthcoming social media ban for under-16s in Australia.
www.wired.com/story/kids-s...
looking to feel old? one of my teen mentees just told me about her "2014 Tumblr playlist," which she listens to as she pretends to be experiencing what it was like to be a teenager "back in those times"
two teens just told me that after seeing a story I wrote in a print nyt magazine, they now think I'm "so famous and so real." print as clout: not dead!!!
all this talk about the “golden age” of magazines… I would just like to say that, I, too, experienced it (wore pencil skirts to my vanity fair internship in summer 2012, where I fetched graydon carter’s lunch from hale & hearty and delivered packages to writers’ brownstones in the west village)
had a dream last night that I was on a flight with zohran and he traded for a middle seat so that a mom and a little kid could sit together. just the kind of good guy he is
As a Berkeley High freshman, Megan Greenwell broke a story that exposed a trafficking ring led by one of the city's richest landlords.
for NYT Magazine, I wrote about how AI sees and makes sense of us—and the freaky ways it can help us understand ourselves better www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
there's so much pontificating from experts about how teens don't date or hook up anymore. so I talked to the *actual* experts on being a teenager today (teenagers themselves)
www.vox.com/even-better/...
I wrote about how the Trump administration is making life worse for aging Americans, which includes both seniors with financial security and those of us who aren't seniors yet @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
hm what are you saying about your own (hot, cool) relationship here