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The New York Times
I Got Gay Married. I Got Gay Divorced. I Regret Both. (Jan 7, 2017)
O The Oprah Magazine
In “Body Work,” Melissa Febos Declares That “Writing Is a Form of Freedom (March 10, 2022)
Primal Screen (Summer 2021)
The Guardian
The Worst Thing That Never Happened (October 9, 2010)
Ladies Home Journal
Making Up For Lost Time (October 2011)
Curl Power (November 2010)
Let It Go! (March 2009)
The Los Angeles Times
Here’s Meredith at a gathering of Los Angeles writers (April 14, 2022)
David Duchovny has more passions than his new protagonist has wives (Jan 27, 2021)
Q&A: For the love of celebrity with Julie Klam, author of ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ (Aug 18, 2017)
Coming to and leaving L.A.: Five writers reflect on how the City of Angels drew them in, or pushed them away (October 18, 2015)
More Magazine
How to make friends—at any age (June 2013)
Q&A With Jane Gross (May 2011)
Q&A With Joshua Foer (March, 2011)
Into
Michelle Tea Gets The Tea From…Meredith Maran (Jul 267, 2018)
AARP
When Your Child Won’t Talk to You (May 2012)
Washington Post
For Today’s Feminists, Sex Makes a Comeback (June 17, 2021)
Los Angeles Magazine
Writer in Residence: Profile of Susan Orlean (December 2021)
Publishers Weekly
SCIBA Attracts 300 Attendees to Upbeat Show
Authors Hail Booksellers at 2016 SCIBA
Real Simple
My boss taught me to stop trying to impress everyone (August 2012)
Mom, You Were Right (May 2008)
The Oldster
Hair (Feb 20, 2023)
The Rumpus
The Rumpus interview with Laura Albert (Dec 19, 2016)
Salon
Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend (March 3, 2019)
“Where’s my wife already?”: Reflections on sex and the single feminist (Jan 27, 2016)
“I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop (May 3, 2015)
Anne Lamott on Mothers Who Love Too Much (May 8, 2011)
Jennifer Egan’s Time-Travel Tour De Force (June 13, 2010)
A Rough Night for Gay Obama Supporters (November 10, 2008)
When Panic Attacks (June 11, 2008)
A Year of Eating Locally-Interview with Barbara Kingsolver (April 30, 2007)
The Eighth Promise (February 7, 2007)
Not Just Another Dead Black Man (March 27, 2006)
Win, Place or Die (October 1, 2005)
Driving Ms. Anderson (November 5, 2004)
What Little Boys Are Made Of (May 28, 2004)
We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Married. Yawn. (March 19, 2004)
Off The Couch (February 17, 2004)
Can Berkeley High Rebound? (March 30, 2001)
Deadly Ambivalence (March 6, 2001)
The Perfect High (January 24, 2001)
The San Francisco Chronicle
A Story of Two Moms (May 2006)
The Whole Village (September 2003)