Adventures in journalism, psychology, and New York City.

Writing

Psychology Today

Night School: A New Take on Dreaming
• Sidebar: The Cost of Cafe Society

Decision 2008: Reading Between the Lines

The Ideological Animal (Second winner of SAJA’s Outstanding Print Journalism Award 2007)
• Sidebar: Party Hoppers

Doctors’ Orders

Beauty Beat: Maxim Insecurity

The New York Times

Take My Life, Please
• Audio Slide Show: The Forlorn Comic

Saving a Comedy Club
• Sidebar: Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and Woody Allen Recall a Brooklyn Comedy Club

It’s a Blog-Eat-Blog World (Gawker vs. MediaBistro)

So That a Disaster Doesn’t Become a Communications Disaster
• Graphic: Inside the Infralynx

Rolling Stone

The Highly-Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl

To be Gay at Yale

The San Francisco Chronicle

Q&A with Spike Lee

Will Shortz, Crossword Puzzle King

Q&A with Lynn Sherr

The Washington Post

The Incredible Growing Placebo Effect

Slate

Screen Test

Today’s Papers

Wired

The War on Terror

Salon.com

Vigil at the Armory
• The New York Times “Portraits of Grief” of the people I mention in my article

A banner day for neo-Nazis

Designer Eggs

The Village Voice
The Hothouse

psychologytoday.com

Erection Reform

4 Myths about Low Sexual Desire

Legal Affairs

Cats with 10 Lives (selected for The Best of Technology Writing 2006)