My Friend Sam

A beautiful story about a friendship.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 12, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2,274 words)

Gender Studies

[Fiction] While traveling to a conference, a recently dumped gender studies professor views herself in the reflection of her airport shuttle driver.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 22, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,705 words)

A Long Day at ‘The Office’ With Mindy Kaling

When she joined the show, Kaling was 24, new to Los Angeles and the only woman on a writing staff of eight. As she recalls in her comic memoir, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns),” to be published by Crown Archetype this November, she rented a small apartment on Fairfax Avenue and Fountain Boulevard, which she did not know was the nexus of transvestite social life in West Hollywood. “I . . . enjoyed late-night interactions with strangely tall, flat-chested women named Felice or Vivica, who always wanted rides to the Valley. If my life at the time had been a sitcom, an inebriated tranny gurgling, ‘Heeeeey, giiiirrrrrl!’ would have been my ‘Norm!’ ”

Published: Sep 23, 2011
Length: 10 minutes (2,589 words)