Megan Hustad is the author of How to Be Useful. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Slate, and American Public Media's Marketplace.

Why Are You So Damn Happy

Why Are You So Damn Happy?

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided, talks with Megan Hustad about our optimism obsession and what it has to...

Posted 7:30 AM | Oct 15, 2009
Girl Gone Mild

Girl Gone Mild

In Not That Kind of Girl, Carlene Bauer turns the wild-chick confessional upside down. An evangelical Christian, she ...

Posted 6:29 AM | Jul 29, 2009
Gloria Vanderbilt Gets Kinky

Gloria Vanderbilt Gets Kinky

In her new erotic novel, the 85-year-old author (and mom of Anderson Cooper) writes sex scenes-with hairbrushes, mask...

Posted 7:00 AM | Jun 23, 2009
Stepping in GOOP

Stepping in GOOP

Gwyneth Paltrow's new website about living the way-too-good life could not have launched at a worse time. In the beg...

Posted 6:02 AM | Dec 4, 2008