Selected:

The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes for The Atlantic

My Life is a Perfect #10YearChallenge Story— but it Doesn’t Fit Neatly Into a “Before” and “After” for Buzzfeed

Why Are People Obsessed With Proving That Celebrities Are Secretly In Love? for Buzzfeed

In Defense of Pettiness for The Hairpin

More Than the Beauty or the Heroine for LitHub

NK Jemisin Makes Cities (Literally) Live and Breathe for The LA Times

The Women Writers You’ve Been Overlooking for The Paris Review Daily

Plus:

The Real Reason the Girls Finale Was So Disappointing for Allure

The Peculiar Sadness of Cartoon Alcoholics for The Awl

The Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory That She is Secretly Gay for Broadly

How Three Shocking Fights Changed Reality TV Forever for BuzzFeed

“You” Doesn’t Capture the Sad Truth About LA for BuzzFeed

It’s Time to Cancel Vanderpump Rules for BuzzFeed

At Tom Tom, Everyone Wants a Taste of Reality TV for BuzzFeed

The Power of an Imperfect Didion for The Cut

Watching UnREAL Actually Turned Me Into a Bachelor/ette Fan for Elle

What Each Daria Character Would Be Up To Now for Elle

Female detectives and television and rape narratives for The Hairpin

Why Are We So Obsessed With Making Healthy Desserts? for Healthyish

From Pomona to Oakland, how a skater mapped California block by block from his board for The LA Times

This tender, original queer YA novel will likely be banned. That’s not why you should read it, for The LA Times

Review: What are books for? A novelist goes beyond the hot takes for The LA Times

12 Iconic LA Spots to Bask In a Great Read— And Book Pairings to Match for The LA Times

What it’s really like to grow up Black among the white elite, in two bracing books for The LA Times

4 new books bring context to brutal California fire season for The LA Times

Just in time for global distress, astrology hits the bookshelves for The LA Times

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace for LitHub

Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont for LitHub

The Joy and Intimacy of the Personal Writing Outlet for LitHub

Two Directions for MEL Magazine

There is No Such Thing as the Young Adult Novel for The Millions

A Matter of Taste: Book Review for Modern Farmer

In Defense of Celebrity Feminism for The New Republic

How Eve Babitz and Francesca Lia Block Made Los Angeles Literary for The New Republic

What “Cult” Means When it Comes to Beauty Products for Racked

Dressing Like the Direction for Racked

One Direction’s Last Concert and the Boyband Expiration Date for Racked

How Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Destroyed the Show– and Built Something Better for Screener TV

On Hild and Being a Woman Who Loves Genre Fiction The Toast

Impractical Loves: On Kristin Cashore’s Jane, Unlimited and Fan Fiction for Unbound Worlds

On ‘Heard it in a Past Life,’ Maggie Rogers Spins Pop Songs Into Revelations for Uproxx

I Love Dick, Harry Styles, and the Gender Double Standard of Muses for The Washington Post