Group interviews are a special brand of terrible. There is no great way to distinguish yourself without sounding like a complete asshole. Everyone is clearly in competition with each other and it’s all the worst parts of any reality competition. Forget empty collegial chatter, no one is here to make friends.
I had the pleasure to discuss music with one of my favorite people in the world, our own Sara Habein. We know how much I love lists and rankings, and it seems that having a discussion about music and adding rankings to things is right up my alley. I had so much fun having a little […]
Tawna Fenske is hilarious. She’s the author I want to hang out with while drinking wine, swapping dirty jokes and digging our toes in the sand.
Stacey Ballis: the author who enlightened me that authors are nice people!
I hate interviews. Unfortunately, as I recently learned firsthand, getting the job can take as many as five or six of them. For me, that was an incredibly stressful experience. Luckily, I know some helpful people and I am a Google Ninja Warrior.
Like just about everyone else in the world (or so it seems), I was struck with the flu last week. Because I was unable to move, I watched a lot of television â primarily because I was too tired to find the remote to turn it off.Â
My latest book fetish is edge-of-your-seat awesomeness â so I was happy as a clam to receive an ARC of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s What We Saw At Night. First, it’s a suspenseful and romantic journey with a kickass heroine, who uses a rare light sensitivity to her advantage by practicing extreme sports with her best friends â and […]
Virgie Tovar is a fierce fatty to be reckoned with.  And her new book, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls On Life, Love & Fashion, is truly wonderful.  If you want to read something that will literally make you laugh, cry, and change your life, get your hands on this one.  (The book even features two […]
Cesy and bookgal recently had the ridiculously good fortune to interview one of their heroines, Helen Zaltzman.
I happened to open up my TED app one morning and saw a talk called “If I should have a daughter.” I clicked on it, thinking it might be interesting and twenty minutes, two spoken word performances, and one life story later, I was a sobbing mess who had a new idol: Sarah Kay.
Continuing our discussion from last week, we’re taking a look at the way potential employers can improve their hiring processes: ensuring they get the top quality candidates for their position, and that potential hires can maximize their search time and receive the same courtesy they are expected to exhibit.
Itâs well known that small businesses are often hit hardest in a recession; itâs a topic thatâs attracted plenty of media coverage. But what hasnât been much discussed is the unprecedented toll the most recent economic slump has taken on woman business owners. As the U.S. exited the previous recession of the early 1990s women […]
For the first ever Ladies Worth Knowing, I got the great pleasure and opportunity to interview Kenya (Robinson), a self-taught artist, working and living in Brooklyn, New York.