Reviving the Lit Fest Where Ray Met Tess
L to R: Melissa Kirsch, Michael Narducci, April Wilder, student moderator Josh Duke “It’s what occupies the space of a literary life outside of New York,” wrote a wistful Richard Ford in the New...
View Article‘Girl’s Guide’ worthwhile gift for soon-to-be grads
A swell review from On the Shelf: They pop up like dandelions every spring: guidebooks for the graduate. Whether junior is saying goodbye to her high school pals, facing the job market with a...
View ArticleMedia Consumption Update
Blogging! It’s so 2007! But this site needs an overhaul. I know it, you know it, it’s getting obvious even to those who have been in deep denial about it. Until then, because I know you’re dying to...
View ArticleLately, Glamour
A classic women’s magazine piece from the August 2010 Glamour by Genevieve Field, featuring my debatably indispensable two cents on embarrassing sex situations. Download the pdf to read the whole...
View ArticleThe Girl’s Guide Makes the Ideal Holiday Gift
Take it from Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, the book that inspired the movie Mean Girls: “This is the first book to explain such critical subjects as a Roth IRA and a bikini wax...
View ArticleIt’s Your Money, Honey! An eBook for 3 measly bucks!
Just in time for graduation, a rollicking, mostly painless guide to personal finance. It’s an eBook, it’s $2.99 (or less) and it will, I guarantee you, convince whoever reads it to start a retirement...
View ArticleNew Edition Coming: 2015
I’m fast at work on the new updated version of Girl’s Guide, which will be published in 2015. That seems like a million years from now, but as the original book took nigh 4 years to research and...
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