By Foster Kamer 1/20/12 1:25pm

MEDS OF MANHATTAN

adderall-addiction-help

Goodbye to Adderall That: One Writer’s Breakup with His Drug of Choice

DEAR ADDERALL,

I’ve been thinking…we need to talk. This has actually been brewing for awhile, but it came to a head the other day. An editor and I were having a little post-mortem outside of the office about the piece I’d published the night before. You know the one. Remember? A few weeks back, you kept me company during a particularly nasty stretch, when I only got four hours of sleep over, what was it, three days? Almost three days. I know, I know: Far from the first time you’ve saved my ass, especially as far as deadlines go. But this time, it was different. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 5/31/11 10:45pm

Mating

Meet Your Gaggle: Crowdsourced Love Is Ready for RomCom

If you want to join us in the new romantic order, you must first accept this: You live in a postdating society.

There will be no dates.

There will be “nondates”–ambiguous drinks, overwrought g-chats, cheeks unexpectedly flushed over coffee with a co-worker. You will not have a boyfriend, but your inboxes will overflow with text Read More

By Doree Shafrir 2/06/08 12:32am

Modern Love Breeds Book Deals

First-time authors looking for a book deal could do worse than to have a piece published in Modern Love, the New York Times Sunday Styles column that tends to provoke eye-rolling among the chattering classes—if they admit to reading the thing at all. But since it started, in 2004, with The Bastard on the Couch Read More