Lizzie Skurnick is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading. She lives in Jersey City.

The End of Single Women

The End of Single Women

Blockbuster memoir Eat, Pray, Love was the ultimate story of a woman finding freedom, so why did Elizabeth Gilbert ge...

Posted 1:29 AM | Jan 5, 2010
Rise of the Alpha Female

Rise of the Alpha Female

In the new film Up in the Air, Vera Farmiga plays George Clooney like Tiger played one of his mistresses. Lizzie Skur...

Posted 1:23 AM | Dec 11, 2009
What Tigers Mom Saw

What Tiger's Mom Saw

Talk about awkward: Tiger and Elin's mothers were both there the night the club flew. Lizzie Skurnick on the mom fac...

Posted 12:31 AM | Dec 5, 2009
Fatherhood Gets Hip

Fatherhood Gets Hip

Lizzie Skurnick on how the rush of literary fathers gushing about how to raise their perfect children is upending gen...

Posted 12:39 AM | Dec 1, 2009