She is the author of the memoir I'm Not The New Me as well as The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan, a humorous look at 1974 Weight Watchers diet recipes. Her third book The Wilder Life, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. She has been published in a number of anthologies including Love is a Four-Letter Word and Sleepaway: Writings on Summer Camp and was a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine's "True Life Tales." She is the pop culture columnist for Bust magazine.