Writing | — Ann Friedman

BIG FRIENDSHIP

I’m the co-author, with my friend Aminatou Sow, of the bestselling book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close (Simon & Schuster).

FEATURES

Features

Glennon Doyle Is Coming to Get the White Women - New York magazine

California Über Alles - The Baffler

My Paradoxical Quest to Build a Personal Brand - The New Republic

Domestic gods: how a manservant could change your life - The Observer Sunday Magazine

Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You? - Matter

All LinkedIn and Nowhere to Go - The Baffler

ESSAYS AND OPINIONS

Opinions

Check on an Extrovert Today - The New York Times

The Magic of Estate Sales - Curbed

Social media isn't a social safety net - The Los Angeles Times

Of course Kylie Jenner didn’t build that - The Los Angeles Times

I Pine for Happy Joe’s Taco Pizza, the Culinary Relic of My Iowa Youth - Bon Appétit

How Will the Fall of Elizabeth Holmes Affect Women Leaders? - ELLE

#MeToo doesn’t lack nuance. Its critics do. - The Los Angeles Times

Not Everything Is a Side Hustle - New York magazine

The Power of Google Doc Activism - The Cut

PROFILES AND INTERVIEWS

Profiles

Allison Janney - The Gentlewoman

One Lunch With Jonathan Gold

Melissa McCarthy - Glamour

Slick Woods - The Observer Sunday Magazine

Alicia Garza - New York magazine

Chris Kraus - New York magazine

Ava DuVernay - The Gentlewoman

Kate and Laura Mulleavy — California Sunday

Lorde - The Sunday Times

Nicola Sturgeon - The Gentlewoman

Rep. Katherine Clark - ELLE

Robyn - The Gentlewoman

Pashon Murray - The Gentlewoman

Alia Shawkat - The Guardian

Christine McVie - ELLE

Erin Brockovich - The Gentlewoman

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews

Gloria Steinem: My Life on the Road - The New York Times Book Review

The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship - The New York Times Book Review

Jonathan Eig: The Birth of the Pill - The New Republic

Lynn Sherr: Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space - The American Prospect

ANTHOLOGIES

Books that feature my work

Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light, 2020

Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth, 2018

Wildsam: Los Angeles Field Guide, 2017

Better Than Sex: Women Write About Sex & Romance in the Digital Age, 2016

California Prose Directory 2016

The Essential Ellen Willis, 2014