Arianne writes like most people snooze: often, mostly in dark and early hours, with occasional unfortunate lapses. Her stories appear regularly in publications like Bloomberg Businessweek, Elle, The Guardian, The New York Times and Vogue, among many others.
Her work typically uses her most complex experiences to illuminate for the benefit of others—though often her work ultimately tells the stories of others. Sometimes she simply observes and creates, which is a less dramatic process. She believes that the whole point of writing is to nudge the world’s idea lines forward, millimeter by millimeter.
Other things you didn’t know you really want to know:
Height: 6’3”. She is author of The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life From On High (Bloomsbury, 2009), which was smashingly successful for an extreme niche book, and made her highly famous among those who can see the tops of their fridges. If you know someone tall, particularly a teen, you should most definitely gift it to them. #StandTall
College: Harvard, where she took 35 courses in 29 departments, leading to a junior-year situation known as Unlikely to Graduate Due To Lack of Major. She worked it out, and graduated magna cum laude.
Time zone: EST. Despite residence in Portland, Oregon. You can find her working at 5am most mornings.
Regional loyalty: Indicated by perma-subscriptions (New Yorker and NYT) and plane tickets (NYC).
Reporting chops: news reporter for the Cambodia Daily Newspaper in Phnom Penh. She returned minus an appendix, plus dengue fever antibodies.
Columnist cred: a decade as the “The Fix” columnist for The New York Times, the “How Did I Get Here” and “What I Wear to Work” columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, and the “Tiptalk” columnist at Woman’s Day.
Internet sex fame: founding editor of New York magazine’s Sex Diaries column. She edited British, U.S. and Italian book collections of the anonymous 7-day relationship journals.
Roommates: Two kids and a Goldendoodle named Funbar. It’s super calm and clean all the time. She is wildly productive.
Enjoys making: books, articles, origami flowers and the best yogurt and bread you’ve ever had and, one hopes, enormous piles of money.