Yo somebody get that MIckey a leatha jacket and a motorcycle

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/garden/bobbie-ann-mason-back-home-via-france.html?_r=1&ref=style

Sorry for not writing (mom?).  I’ve been keeping very busy at the cheese collective (false) and mostly writing for New York magazine (true) but check out my latest New York Times piece which ran on the back page of the Sunday Styles section this past weekend…http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/fashion/weddings/as-wedding-roles-evolve-here-come-the-flower-men-field-notes.html?ref=weddings

Happy fourth of July!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=happiness&st=cse

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did…

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/08/09/100809sh_shouts_doyle

Found this story interesting — http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11fob-consumed-t.html

Also if you’re going shopping for summer clothes/gifts in this egg-frying heat — I picked out some cool stuff for New York magazine…

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/07/trendlet_seersucker.html

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/07/slideshow_20_best_bike_accesso.html

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/07/denim_dresses.html

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/07/beach_towels.html

Got you covered for the holiday…

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/07/beach_towels.html

and

http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/07/how_about_some_july_4th_specials.php

Hey everyone!

If you have a spare moment, check out my first piece in the New York Times, which was featured yesterday on the back page of Sports page. It’s my highest accomplishment and greatest honor of my entire writing career.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/sports/baseball/13mascot.html?scp=1&sq=ashley%20hoffman&st=cse

Now that summer is here, I’m posting an article that appeared on the cover of Time Out in January. Back when NY was freezing, I did this story for TONY on the city’s best tanning salons. I went to 2355734 different spray tanning salons across the city. I appeared in public looking several different colors all in the name of investigative journalism.

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/spas-sport/82269/best-spray-tanning-salons-in-new-york-city

If you’ll be in town for Memorial Day, check out my review of this quirky East Village bar with an outdoor patio.

http://www.blackbookmag.com/guides/details/burp-castle

After I submitted this, the BlackBook editor who is working on a cheap NY book asked if I would write about a destructive obsession of mine (vintage stores) for the book. How great of him!

A mentor once said that writing about your obsessions is the best way to make it. Successful writers are never the smartest or most talented, just the most obsessed.