Glynnis MacNicol
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Books

  • I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
  • No One Tells You This: A Memoir
  • Becoming a Baker (Masters at Work Series) 
  • HelloFlo: The Guide, PERIOD.: The Everything Puberty Book for the Modern Girl (co-written with Naama Bloom)
Contributions
  • New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
  • ​Best American Travel Writing 2021
  • Between the Lines: Stories From the Underground 
  • Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
  • A Glorious Freedom​

Selected Writing

  Recently
  • The Joy of Other People's Children - New York Times
  • The Real Reason Republicans Are Attacking Kamala Harris as ‘Childless’ - Rolling Stone
  • Men Fear Me, Society Shames Me, and I Love My Life - New York Times
  • The Voice Machine - Deseret Magazine
  • Everybody Loves Red Hook. Or So They Say. - New York Times​
  • 50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant - New York Times​
  • I Think We’re Alone Now. Welcome. - New York Times
  • The New York You Once Knew Is Gone. The One You Loved Remains. - GEN​
  • I Quit Giving a Damn - New York Times
  • The Reinvention of Sydney Biddle Barrows: The Mayflower Madame Has Some Advice - Town & Country​
  • Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy? - Town & Country
Personal Essays
  • My Job As An Auntie Is To Tell Parents They’re Doing Great - Romper
  • I Feel Great About My Neck - New York Times
  • Surviving a Year Without Touch - GEN​
  • It’s Okay to Say You Wish You Weren’t Alone Right Now - Glamour
  • ​I’m in My 40s, Child-Free and Happy. Why Won’t Anyone Believe Me? - New York Times
  • The Unexpected, Exhilarating Freedom of Being Single at 41 - The Cut [28 Pieces From 2015 That Should Be Required Reading For Women -  HuffPo]
  • Growing Up Meant Learning How to Wear Red Lipstick - The Cut/New York Magazine
  • I’m 40. I Don’t Want to Be a Mom. Now What? - The Cut/New York Magazine
  • I Came Undone - What It's Really Like to Burnout - ELLE
  • Where the Fuck Is Princess Leia? - Medium
  • Cropping Out the Sadness - ELLE
  • Off to the Races: My Summer Job as the Only Teenage Girl at the Racetrack - Medium
​New York City
  • My Mask, My Safety Signal - New York Times
  • The Death and Life of the Greatest American City - GEN
  • From Blackout to Priced Out in New York City - The Daily Beast
  • Brownsville: Revitalizing a Community, One Person at a Time [From the Ground Up, A 5-Part Series -- 2015 Contently Award winner] -- Chase 
  • When I Was Young, So Was New York - New York Daily News
  • Give us back our Brooklyn Bridge view - New York Daily News
  • A Blizzard of Privilege: Subway Closure Reveals Much About Cuomo and Media’s Understanding of City - Medium
  • After Sandy a Great and Complex City Reveals Traumas New and Old - Capital New York [WNYC Best of 2012: Longform Writing About The NY Region]
  • A Quick History of the Brooklyn Bridge: Plus 125 photos taken by me over the course of 27 months - Medium
Culture
  • Inside The Secret Sisterhood Of Women Who Worked At Playboy - ELLE 
  • Women On Road Trips Aren't Tragedies Waiting To Happen. - The Guardian
  • The Bravery and the Brilliance of Carrie Fisher - ELLE ​
  • Mind the Gap: Coming to terms with #MeToo's generational divide - Shondaland ​
  • Miranda Priestly Is the Boss I’ve Always Wanted - Lifetime
  • Harper Lee: the 'great lie' she didn't write Mockingbird rears its head again - Guardian
  • SELFIES ONLY: The greatest feminist visual act since bra-burning - ELLE 
  • How Sex And The City Holds Up...and Doesn't - ELLE 
  • The case for women skipping work for ‘period days’ - Fusion
  • Middle Age is the New Prime Time For Women - ELLE 
  • Aaron Sorkin Doesn't Want to Fix Hollywood's 'Woman Problem' - ELLE 
  • The Newsroom - Capital New York
  • On Hate-watching ('Up With Steve'/MSNBC): Newsroom, House of Cards [VIDEO]
  • ‘The Hunger Games’ Is a Clarion Call of the Social-Media Generation - The Daily Beast
  • Wheels Is Dead: Remembering a Canadian Childhood - The Daily Beast
  • 'Free to Be...You and Me' Turns 40 - mental_floss
  • Save The Books! Famous People (and Others) Tell You What Books To Buy - Huffington Post
 Politics​​
  • How Glenn Beck Laid the Tracks for the Trump Train - The Daily Beast
  • Sophie Grégoire Trudeau: A Very Canadian ‘First Lady’ - New York Times​
  • ​Having A Hillary Clinton-Inspired Life Crisis? You're Not Alone - Refinery 29
  • What’s Worse Than Donald Trump? Getting Mansplained About Donald Trump - W
  • What We're Really Talking About When We Talk About Jill Abramson's Firing - ELLE 
  • What's Really Wrong With the White House Correspondents' Dinner? - Capital New York
  • In Tampa A Ravenous Media Gobbles Up the Scenery - Capital New York
  • Why is She Famous? A Letter from the White House Correspondents Dinner - Capital New York
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Media Isn't Telling You The Whole Story - Business Insider
  • Glenn Beck [video interview]
  • Mosque Sparks NYC's Long-Delayed Reaction to 9/11 - AOL Opinion
  • Playboy.com - 2008 Election
Travel
  • The 9 Essential Lessons My Summers Of Solo Travel Have Taught Me - VOGUE UK
  • Gone Fishing: One Woman’s Desperate Attempt to Get Offline - Yahoo Travel
  • The Worst (Stupidest, Most Dangerous) Travel Decision I've Ever Made  - Yahoo Travel
  • My First Time in Business Class Ruined Plane Travel For Me — Forever - Yahoo Travel
  • The Dying Art of the Bullfight - Fathom
Sports
  • What No One Tells You: 8 NEW YORK CITY MARATHON SECRETS - Outside.com
Fashion
  • Curate at Shrimpton Couture 
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