Other Work by Curtis Sittenfeld
ALTARED
(anthology of wedding-related essays)
"The
Wedding Vow"
May 2007
THIS
IS NOT CHICK LIT
(anthology of short stories by women)
"Volunteers
Are Shining Stars"
August 2006
THIS AMERICAN LIFE
Available online at
www.thislife.org.
Give
the People What They Want
July 12, 2002
Like
It Or Not
October 24, 2003
Auto
Show
December 10, 2004
THE NEW YORK TIMES
ESSAY;
You Hate Me, You Really Hate Me
February 12, 2006
Despite my ambivalence about visiting book clubs, I've always come away
with the sense that belonging to one seems like a lot of fun.
ESSAY;
You Can't Get a Man With a Pen
December 19, 2004
Writing a book as a means of finding either love or sex seems about
as efficient as writing a book to get rich.
SALON
Divorce
on the D-List
November 22, 2005
She's loud, she's crass, she has no class. So why am I so broken up about
Kathy Griffin's breakup?
Too
young, too pretty, too successful
September 4, 2003
Hating Nell Freudenberger -- the 28-year-old writer celebrated in Vogue
and Elle -- is a virtual cottage industry among ambitious literati. And
I was ready to hate her too -- until I read her book.
Traumas
in adolescent life
February 17, 1999
A judge of the Seventeen magazine fiction contest recalls what was endearing
about the writers of the 400 stories she read -- even the really bad ones.
The
wedding boyfriend
November 4, 2003
It's a peculiar phenomenon. You hook up with someone at the rehearsal
dinner and by Sunday brunch you've enacted all of the stages of courtship
-- speeded up.
"If
we haven't found anyone else by 40, let's get hitched!"
November 18, 2003
Are "marriage pacts" a mature, open-eyed approach to love --
or the ultimate in cowardly bet-hedging?
Why
"Dirty Dancing" is the best girl movie ever
February 27, 2004
You can keep "Havana Nights" -- nothing compares to the original,
a sizzling film that offered awkward, smart teens hope that a sexy heartthrob
might sweep them away.
Why
I love Laura Bush
January 29, 2004
I'm a staunch liberal who hates George W. And yet I think his wife is
sincere, down-to-earth, smart -- and a role model for all Americans.
Latte,
tea or me?
October 7, 2004
We've all been majorly smitten with that hot barista or bartender. Inside
the steamy (literally) world of customer service lust.
Is
she really going out with him?
July 22, 2004
How do our amazingly intelligent and fascinating friends end up dating
total duds? Meet the all-too-common "unequally cool couple."
Short
and sweet
November 8, 2004
You can look him straight in the eye and even borrow his clothes: Some
reasons why smaller men rock.
FAST COMPANY
Elevate
Something Ordinary to Something Extraordinary
November 2000
Every fall since 1993, Samuel Mockbee and his students have left Auburn
and headed west to Hale County, one of the country's poorest regions.
Their assignment: to build great houses with low-cost materials.
Samuel
Mockbee: A Design for Life
January 2002
More than a year after profiling Samuel Mockbee for our Who's Fast 2001
issue, former Fast Company writer Curtis Sittenfeld reflects on the legacy
of an architecture professor who taught both compassion and craft.
No-Brands-Land
September 2000
Nike. Starbucks. Apple. The Brand Called You. Author-activist Naomi Klein
knows all of the arguments in favor of high-powered brands. She just doesn't
buy them.
Youth
Movement
August 2000
Michael Furdyk and Jennifer Corriero are advising Microsoft on what the
next generation of knowledge workers wants from software. Did we mention
that they're, like, really young?
Leader
on the Edge
October 1999
World-renowned explorer Robert Swan is the first person ever to walk to
both the North and South Poles. Now he's teaching businesspeople about
leadership under life-and-death conditions.
The
Most Creative Man in Silicon Valley
June 2000
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Michael Ray has taught
some of the best-known innovators in Silicon Valley how to be more creative.
It's no wonder that both students and executives are clamoring for his
lessons.
"The
Man of My Dreams is so free of tricks, the honesty is so startling,
you feel there's a writer here who isn't trying to beguile you but to
lay out some plain, raw truth about emotions and sex. This is a courageous,
refreshing novel."
—ALICE MUNRO
Publishers
Weekly:
"A-grade... Sittenfeld neither indulges nor mocks teen angst, but
hits it spot on... saturated with heartbreaking humor and written in clean
prose."
