Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts, sends out a weekly email newsletter, and co-hosts the podcast Call Your Girlfriend. Her work appears in ELLE, The New Republic, Matter, Esquire, The Gentlewoman, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and, of course, The Baffler. Before taking a lucrative career turn into freelance writing, she was the editor of GOOD magazine. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often that the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com