Best Of
Spot for OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network
On McSweeney’s:
On The Grindstone:
- Bullish: How to Motivate Yourself to Be Motivated
- Bullish: Using Your College Skills to Succeed After College
- Bullish: How To Go To There (Your First Steps To Making It Big)
- Bullish: Are You Thinking Too Small?
Business and Career Writing on The Gloss:
- Bullish: When to Make Massive and Ballsy Life Changes for Your Career
- Bullish: How Talking About Money Can Make You More Of It
- Bullish: Maybe Work-Life Balance Means You Should Work MORE
- Bullish: How to be a Productivity Unicorn
- Bullish: How to Stop Procrastinating About Stopping Procrastinating
- Bullish: Pre-Internet Productivity Tips for the Young and Sprightly
- Bullish: Social Class in the Office
- Bullish: Picking a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Hold Back Your Career or Bank Account
- Bullish: What I Learned About Success in a Korean Cram School
- Bullish: In Praise of Anger (and How to Use It)
- Bullish: How to Run Your Career Like a Business
- Bullish: Dealing with Short Men, Tall Men, and Their Various Battles for Dominance
- Bullish: Financial Planning for Motherhood (Just In Case You’re Not Swedish)
- Bullish: What Egg Donation Taught Me About Being a Dude
Beauty and Culture Writing on The Gloss:
- NerdGlam: Inventions for Kickass Women
- NerdGlam: How to Shut Down Street Harassers
- NerdGlam: Ask a Beauty Writer Who Uses a Wheelchair How to Look Good Sitting Down
- NerdGlam: In Praise of Full Eyebrows
- NerdGlam: Seamed Stockings Are Not Just for ’40s Secretaries
Entertaining Education Writing on Manhattan GRE’s Vocabulary Blog:
- Vocabulary in The Princess Bride
- Vocab in Harry Potter (seven-post series)
- Vocab at the Nail Salon
- Latin is for Lovers: “Heteropaternal Superfecundation”
- Easily Confused Words: Prodigy and Prodigal (Hint: “Prodigal” is BAD)
- PopVocab: Plaudits, Gilded, Sylph (and Victoria Beckham)
- PopVocab: The Insipid, Inane, Vapid, Fatuous “Friday” by Rebecca Black
- PopVocab: Charlie Sheen and Moral Turpitude
- PopVocab: Beyonce’s “Bills Bills Bills” on Glee (What’s a GRE word for “scrub”?)
Travel Writing:
- Ecuador: Pictures with Llamas, Cincuenta Centavos
- Mexico: Swine Flu and Cactus Tacos
- Canada: Poutine, Wheelchair Hats, Ninjas
- Edinburgh: Not Shy About the Toilets
- Wall St.: Why the Back of the Bull is More Interesting
- Sweden: Eat the Reindeer. Eat it Now.
- Argentina: The 40-Foot Animatronic Jesus and WTF is a Capybara?
- Mideast Journal: A comedy tour to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Djibouti to entertain the troops.
Video, Narration, and Voiceover Work:
- Videos from “What Philosophy Majors Do After College”
- What You Can Do presents: “Support an Animal Shelter”
- “Skanks on a Plane” — voiceover work for the Bob & Tom Show
From JenniferDziura.com:
- Einstein did not say you could manifest your fucking dreams
- New on Amazon: “Introduction to Logic” (with exercises by Jen Dziura)
- English is Tough Stuff: Audio Recording of a Famous Pronunciation Poem, Much Beloved or Reviled by ESL Students and Lexophiles
- Badvertising: Descartes Abuse
- It’s Your Time (Having a Baby): Second-Person Pronoun Abuse
- Badvertising: When Poor Grammar Meets Innumeracy
- Pedant Party! You Correct These Companies’ Grammar! and Pedant Party Answers
- Lindsay Lohan and the Misplaced Deodorant Modifier
- The World’s Only Blog Post About Jessica Alba and the Grammatically Correct Usage of Compound Adjectives and When to Hyphenate Them
- How to Really, Really Multitask. With Both Tits.
- LASIK Pushers Hate Your Glasses
- Two-Headed Kittens and Your Mom’s Honor Roll Doesn’t Count
- Words Mean Things: Chris Brown and “Into” versus “In To”
- Words Mean Things: Jen vs. Angelina Edition
- Some Ways I’ve Thought of To Express My Genuine Dislike of Wire Hangers Without Sounding Like a Classic Film Harpy
- Us Weekly Doesn’t Know How Math Works
- “Perpetrating” the Lyrics: A Critical Exegesis of the 1989 Young MC Hit “Bust a Move”
- Macho behavior has a purpose, such defending your village from being sacked by Visigoths
- In which I am mistaken for various Asian people and Alfred Hitchcock
- “She Looks Like Pee-Wee Herman in Drag”
- Hot Septuagenarian Erotica
- “Moms’ work would bring in $138,095 a year”: A Rebuttal – as reviewed on Economist.com
- The story of how I wasted an hour dressing myself in cartoon clothing because I was trying to help a teenage girl with her period
- Great Gams!
- Shape magazine wants us to get gym-raped