Sydney’s remarkable, obsessive love didn’t feel eerie to me, it felt eerily familiar.

Avenue Magazine

Anna Pei is architect legend I.M. Pei’s grand daughter. Their close relationship steers her life calling: archival work and the preservation of memory.

photo by Matthew Avignone

Town and Country

How the Pope of Trash became a national treasure. A profile of John Waters.

photos by Douglas Friedman

Gawker

The New York Times

A look at the Moma Design Store, where art and commerce blur so fully that people walk around observing product like art and art like product.

The New York Times

A retail review of the Hollister store.

Buzzfeed

An easy to read map of how a town goes from derelict to deluxe. Written with Amanda Duarte.

The New York Times

“Fourteen years ago these clothes would have been incomprehensible to me. If I had walked in, listening to Letters to Cleo on my portable CD player, I would have reacted like a cave man who, hurtled through time, had come across a microwave and was dumbfounded. “Wha? $135 for T-shirt? Me no understand.”

photo by Hiroko Masuike

Out magazine

An interview with Abbi Jacobsen and Ilana Glazer at the peak of Broad City’s rise into the comedy canon. We met at the St Regis hotel. It was early in the morning. Like any celebrity at the dawn of notoriety, they had green juices and chia parfaits and were tired. But they were both super nice as the fame cloud was rolling over their heads.

Town and Country

How Spiritual Snobs became the new One Percent

Town and Country

How to speak, act, and shop like a cryptocrat—even if you have no idea what a blockchain is.

American Theater

A review of four books on performing solo work and monologues.

American Theater

A triple-book review of biographies about three leading lady legends of the stage: Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, and Mary Martin. A joy of an assignment!

Glow Magazine

There was this weird streak of work I had where I was interviewing a lot of models. At the height of her pay grade, I met Daria Werbowy for a moment during her photoshoot. Her agent was really angry I mentioned her (then don't talk so loudly around me!).

Paper Magazine

I interviewed Mariah for Paper Magazine. I met her at the photo shoot and then later talked to her on the phone, while she was in a bath. Reader, I loved her. She is your genuine Long Island girlfriend who became a diva -- funny, honest, real, fabulous.

Glow Magazine

Glow is like the Canadian Allure magazine. One summer, I spoke to Ms. Klum on the phone. I had just discovered Buddhism and meditation and was predictably high off my first discovery of the practice. I asked Heidi if she had a spiritual practice. “No,” she answered. “I just like to sit on the couch and watch TV with my kids.”

InStyle Magazine

Right before the end of the time when magazines had expense accounts and hired freelancers to write cover stories and send them places, I traveled to Vancouver to interview Ms. Deschanel at the peak of her New Girl fame and She & Him buzz. She was very kind. I asked where she lived. She said, politely: “Oh I can’t tell you that. If it gets in any press I will have stalkers.”

Blackbook Magazine

Blackbook Magazine

Blackbook Magazine