“I’m sure that you are okay, and you are indeed talented, but you’re not publishing books on the national and international level of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, or Hunter S. Thompson.”

I live in a major city and even I was like “Umm, hey Jezebel, not everyone lives in a city, FYI”

I disagree with all this OKCupid is for real dating and Tinder is for fucking crap. You’re drawing imaginary lines and people say they follow them but come on, they just don’t. There are plenty of people on OKCupid who use it just to get laid and plenty of people who want something more on Tinder. I know because I’ve…

Yeah, I found the only reliable writers, and most competent writers, were women, and often were the best writers as well. Men were a mixed bag.

Some of them really think it won’t come back to bite them, like they’ll never need us again. This happened with a guy who wrote for us on certain days and then he stopped completely. I asked him why and he just arrogantly said he was “very busy” and started bragging about how successful he was, and I was like OK,…

Hmm. I am pretty divided. Yes, I can point to a couple things I’ve written where I simply became tired of fighting an editor even though I knew I was right or a piece became something I never wanted it to be and the framing was all wrong. When you find “the one” — the editor who inspires you and gets what you’re…