I met Lori Gottlieb years ago now and I am a passionate fan. There are even rumors that I will be mentioned in an upcoming Atlantic article, “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough,” which will be coming out in the March issue available online this Friday.
Forget about me me me for a minute — this is about Lori. Lori was just on NPR today and will be on the Today Show tomorrow. Here’s an excerpt from her email:
“I’ll also be interviewed about the piece on The Today Show this Friday, 2/8 (NBC, between 8 & 8:30 a.m..). And NPR ran my commentary today that speaks to some of the points in the Atlantic story. You can hear that at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18751687.”
I think Lori is smashing and I am so happy to be a part of this article and this project. When the article comes online on Friday, I will reveal all of the awful details of my interview — what I said about love, marriage, etc. Egad! To quote Lori in her email:
“Thanks again for your great quotes and insight. Either we’re all really cynical, or we’re just depressingly reality-based, and true love, like religion, is indeed the opiate of the masses.”
Amen, sister! Anyway, if you’re not yet a Fan of Lori Gottlieb, please check out her Official Lori Gottlieb Web Site. Also, check out all the magazine articles she has done in the past:
| • Glamour UK (Jennifer Lopez cover profile) October 2007 |
| • MSN (“Are You the Last One Single?”) October 2007 |
| • Grazia magazine/UK (Nicky Hilton interview) September 2007 |
| • Grazia magazine/UK (Courtney Love interview) July 2007 |
| • MSN (“Left Out in the Cold”) April 2007 |
| • The New York Times (“Teaching Movie Moguls to Wipe Drool”) March 2007 |
| • Grazia magazine/UK (Eric Mabius “Ugly Betty” profile) February 2007 |
| • MSN (”Valentine’s Day Survival Guide”) February 2007 |
| • The Los Angeles Jewish Journal (“When D-A-T-E Becomes a Four-Letter Word”) January 2007 |
| • Women’s Health (“It’s All Relative”) December 2006 |
| • The New York Times (“My Mother the TV Writer”) November 2006 |
| • MSN (“First Date Fumbles”) November 2006 |
| • Glamour UK (Sarah Michelle Gellar cover profile) November 2006 |
| • Glamour UK (Christina Aguilera cover profile) October 2006 |
| • MSN (”Got Kids?”) September 2006 |
| • MSN (“Single Parent Pickup Tricks”) August 2006 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Snips and Snapshots”) May 2006 |
| • Glamour (”Party of Two and A Half”) April 2006 |
| • The Atlantic Monthly (“How Do I Love Thee?”) March 2006 |
| • Elle (”Who’s Your Daddy?”) February 2006 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Sense and Sensitivity”) October 2005 |
| • The Atlantic Monthly (“The XY Files”) September 2005 |
| • Red magazine, UK (Teri Hatcher cover story) September 2005 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Once Upon a Heeb”) July 2005 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Mama Said…”) June 2005 |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Calendar: “As Biological Clocks Go, His is More Like a Travel Alarm”) May 2005 |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Calendar: “Please Leave a Hidden Message After the Tone”) April 2005 |
| • Fresh Yarn (“Sleepless in JFK”) |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Calendar: “Don’t Make Me Laugh”) March 2005 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“The Court of Cupid”) February 2005 |
| • Elle (”Insignificant Other”) November 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Political Bedfellows”) October 2004 |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Calendar: “To Win With Defeatism”) September 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Guilty of Being Too Guilty”) September 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (“Wandering Back Into the Fold”) September 2004 |
| • Glamour (”Little Black Book”) September 2004 |
| • People (”Colors Insulting to Nature” Review) August 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “SWF Seeks Same”) August 2004 |
| • Redbook (”Sweet Revenge”) August 2004 |
| • People (”Grosse Pointe Girl” Review) June 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Competitive Coupling”) June 2004 |
| • People (”What to Keep” Review) May 2004 |
| • People (”Like the Red Panda” Review) April 2004 |
| • Glamour (”Why I Love Going to Work”) April 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Vanity Body Plates”) March 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “V-Day Gestures”) February 2004 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Full Disclosure”) November 2003 |
| • People (”Save Karyn” Review) September 2003 |
| • People (”Family Trust” Review) September 2003 |
| • Glamour (”Bed Test”) August 2003 |
| • People (”Sushi For Beginners” Review) June 2003 |
| • L.A. Weekly (”French Fry Nation“) June 2003 |
| • People (”Rescuing Patty Hearst” Review) March 2003 |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Sunday Calendar: “A Degree of Humor“) March 2003 |
| • The Los Angeles Times (Sunday Calendar: “Out of the Deep End“) February 2003 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Prozac Jewess“) February 2003 |
| • Farallon Films: Odds & Sods (”The Penis Diaries“) January 2003 |
| • Glamour (”Tummy Troubles”) January 2003 |
| • Redbook (”My Big Mistake that Turned Out Great”) December 2002 |
| • Stanford magazine (”A Blonde’s Bombshell”) December 2002 |
| • Minnesota Monthly (”Father Knows Best”) December 2002 |
| • The New York Post (“Teens on Film”) November 2002 |
| • People (”All is Vanity” Review) November 2002 |
| • Redbook (”You Won’t Believe Who I Married”) October 2002 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (”Inside the Cult of Kibu”) August 2002 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Literary Speed-Dating”) August 2002 |
| • People (”Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber” review) July 2002 |
| • Elle (“The Ex-Girlfriends Club”) July 2002 |
| • People (”Angels” review) June 2002 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (”Faith in Unique Places“) April 2002 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “Will the Real Jew Please Stand Up?“) April 2002 |
| • People (”Slave to Fashion” review) April 2002 |
| • People (”Advanced Sex Tips for Girls” review) March 2002 |
| • This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine December 2001 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “L.A. Jew”) November 2001 |
| • People (”Last Year’s River” review) November 2001 |
| • The New York Times (“A Home Office Needs Its Boundaries”) October 2001 |
| • ChickClick (Interview with “7th Heaven’s”Beverley Mitchell) October 2001 |
| • The L.A. Jewish Journal (Singles: “The Rabbi-Bad Boy Complex”) October 2001 |
| • San Jose Mercury News (”The World Below” review) October 2001 |
| • Mademoiselle (”Brunch With…” columns) September, October, November 2001 |
| • People (”Long Time No See” review) September 2001 |
| • Mademoiselle (”My Childhood Friends… Today”) September 2001 |
| • Redbook magazine (”The Most Hated Women in America”) August 2001 |
| • Modern Bride (”Destination San Francisco“) August 2001 |
| • Seventeen Magazine (”Forgive or Forget?”) August 2001 |
| • Mademoiselle (Health News) July 2001 |
| • The San Francisco Chronicle (”High Maintenance” review) July 2001 |
| • iLife (”Wired Women”) July 2001 |
| • Farallon Films: Odds & Sods (”Fish Girl“) June 2001 |
• Time Magazine (”Thirtysomething meets ER“) April 2001 |
| • The San Jose Mercury News (”A Stethoscope on the Soul”) April 2001 |
| • Mademoiselle (”Cocaine in the Corner Office”) April 2001 |
| • CosmoGirl! (”Disordered Eating”) April 2001 |
| • The Industry Standard/Year In Review (”Inside the Cult of Kibu“) December 2000 |
| • Time Digital (”Is There a Geek in the House?”) December 2000 |
| • The Industry Standard (”Seeking Seclusion“) November 2000 |
| • The New York Times (”When Six Figures Add Up to Zero“) October 2000 |
| • The Industry Standard (”From Glitterati to Digerati“) September 2000 |
| • Webdelsol Editor’s Pick (“All the King’s Horses”) July 2000 |
| • Salon (“But Enough About Me: Does Writing a Memoir Give People Carte Blanche to Analyze Your Life”) June 2000 |
| • Salon Table Talk (a week-long online chat with the author) June 2000 |
| • Oxygen.com (Breakup Girl: “Hooking Up at 35,000 Feet”) May 2000 |
| • DrDrew.com (”Liposuction Lessons”) April 2000 |
| • Oxygen.com (Breakup Girl: “Club Med School”) April 2000 |
| • Stanford magazine (”Left for Dead”) January 1999 |
| • Selected Columns from Salon Magazine, 1998: •Bad Chemistry: When your lab partner is an obsessive compulsive, not even the data is safe •Breasts on the Brain: Anatomy is grueling enough without a gang of unweaned college boys drooling over the specimens •Horrible Harvard: An interview at Harvard Medical School reveals the ice behind the ivy •Behind Closed Doors: When my favorite professor revealed that he was human, too, I knew I’d never look at him the same way again •Survival of the Earliest: Competing for grades is one thing. But facing off for parking spaces means all-out war •Penile Ponderings: In search of vestigial vaginas and other ethical dilemmas •Ghosts on campus: Within the cozy community of campus life, there are plenty of cracks to fall through |
| • Slate (Guest Diarist) August 1998 |
| • The Outlook (”15 Minutes”) February 1998 |
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You know, the first thing I think of when I read Marry Him! is, "Uh, where are they going to find the guys who are going to settle?"
I mean, it sounds like these women are hoping to "settle" with a man who is more or less their equal, instead of continuing to wait for some silly 14 year-old's fantasy of what love is.
Why would a these men who are more or less as educated, cultured, and aged as they chose to settle with them when they can just say, "hm... no, I think I will choose a woman with issues, flaws, and baggage - 10 years younger." ?
Settling for a guy really just means being satisfied with young and hot rather than "perfect in every conceivable way."
Old American women are so lucky that there are so many American guys who apparently are unaware of the options they've got...
Or maybe they are settling for men in their 50's and 60's where 40 is a rather nice level of hotness without the social awkwardness of everyone assuming you are out with your grandaughter...
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