My writing has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Ms., Islands, Opera News and other journals and magazines. I’ve published social satire, fiction and pieces on professional football, Venetian floods, Jewish woman boxer "The Zion Lion," and heretics John Thomas Scopes and Galileo. One especially monumental piece combines Wagner's Ring Cycle, a performance of "Don Giovanni," and a lousy football game. In 900 words.

In 2010 I began Sidebar for Plaintiffs, a blog about lawsuits. After 2014, when I settled the lawsuit which inspired the blog, Sidebar morphed into whatever I'm thinking about whenever I think it. This year so far, the blog has averaged 343,000 hits a month, from pretty much every nation in the world, including some I'd never heard of until now. Pacific atolls, mostly.

For the most part, my experiences have enhanced my writing, but occasionally my writing created the experience. After doing a sardonic piece about the New York Giants press corps, I got a call from the Giants’s revered general manager, George Young. "How did you get so smart?" was the first thing he said to me. We remained friends until his death.

I was born on 29th Street in Manhattan, first child of one ex-Trotskyist and one proto-feminist with hair down to her waist. At various times and for various educational purposes, I attended the Juilliard School, Oberlin College, Columbia University and the Speedwriting Institute. I have lived, worked in and loved New York City my entire adult life.