Sometimes people are put in the unfortunate position of having to figure out who I am, so here is a cheat sheet to that! Question number one: it is pronounced "Cory."
I'm the editor for the Styles desk of The New York Times. We cover social and generational change, money, gender, wealth, power, hair-dos and hair do nots, self-care and beauty. Our group includes the Fashion News department, the Society News department (that's the wedding announcements and Vows and more!) and also Modern Love and Rites of Passage. Come say hi!
For a time I wrote an advice column in the Business section of The Times called Work Friend. It got a lot of hate mail! Prior to that, I managed publishing partnerships across Vox Media (publishers of Vox.com, The Verge, SB Nation, Eater, Curbed, Racked, Polygon, and Recode), helping those brands succeed with Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Apple, and Twitter.
In 2003, after years of amateur blogging, I left my civilian job to spend a year as the editor of Gawker. In 2005: I was an editor at the New York Observer. In 2007: another stint as Gawker editor. In 2009: co-founded The Awl, The Hairpin, Splitsider and The Billfold, a family of profitable, independent web publications. In 2013: published Very Recent History, a nonfiction book of reporting. Sometime in there I ran a Q&A column for Hollywood folk in the LA Times, and wrote features for places like Maxim, Details and Marie Claire UK. (Guess which one paid best!) Also, was a columnist for Bookforum. I was an "adjunct assistant professor" in the Arts and Culture program of Columbia University's Journalism School MA program; that means I work one-on-one with students on their Master's Theses. I'm not really sure if you capitalize that, and I'm represented by PJ Mark at Janklow & Nesbit.
I'm the editor for the Styles desk of The New York Times. We cover social and generational change, money, gender, wealth, power, hair-dos and hair do nots, self-care and beauty. Our group includes the Fashion News department, the Society News department (that's the wedding announcements and Vows and more!) and also Modern Love and Rites of Passage. Come say hi!
For a time I wrote an advice column in the Business section of The Times called Work Friend. It got a lot of hate mail! Prior to that, I managed publishing partnerships across Vox Media (publishers of Vox.com, The Verge, SB Nation, Eater, Curbed, Racked, Polygon, and Recode), helping those brands succeed with Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Apple, and Twitter.
In 2003, after years of amateur blogging, I left my civilian job to spend a year as the editor of Gawker. In 2005: I was an editor at the New York Observer. In 2007: another stint as Gawker editor. In 2009: co-founded The Awl, The Hairpin, Splitsider and The Billfold, a family of profitable, independent web publications. In 2013: published Very Recent History, a nonfiction book of reporting. Sometime in there I ran a Q&A column for Hollywood folk in the LA Times, and wrote features for places like Maxim, Details and Marie Claire UK. (Guess which one paid best!) Also, was a columnist for Bookforum. I was an "adjunct assistant professor" in the Arts and Culture program of Columbia University's Journalism School MA program; that means I work one-on-one with students on their Master's Theses. I'm not really sure if you capitalize that, and I'm represented by PJ Mark at Janklow & Nesbit. 
Fairly Recently
A profile of Ina Garten for EaterMission Demolished, for the last day of Gawker
A story about naked men and locker rooms for the New York Times
I wrote about not smoking for the New York Times Mens' Styles section In praise of Summer Fridays for the New York Times Magazine
A conversation with Ursula Le Guin for Interview
A review of "The Magicians" Trilogy for Slate
An introduction to Henry James's The Reverberator that I wrote for Melville House
A review of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed for the NY Times Book Review
On New York City
New York Is Better Than Ever -- And It Sucks, a weird thing for New York magazineWe Love Penn Station, a NY Times op-ed
What Happened To New York: A History Of The 00's So Far, in Gawker Where Have All the Cockroaches Gone?, NY Observer In Jared's Cottage, NY Observer Chitty Chitty Bang Rent, NY Observer The Great Gay Outdoors, NY Observer The Invention of the High Line, NY Observer A profile of David Patrick Columbia, NY Observer
On Arts and culture
A profile of Alec Baldwin for the LA TimesLindsay Lohan At 18, for the LA Times
Table of Contents, for Matter
Oscar Speeches, for the NY Times Cat Got Your Brain, NY Times
Tracey Emin at 42, for the New York Observer
Mike Leigh and Scott Elliott, for the New York Observer
A profile of Miami Beach party king Steve Berke for Maxim
A little thing on Joy Williams, for Slate)
The Methods of Arianna Huffington, for Bookforum The Stories of Le Guin, for Slate
I, Narcissus, for the NYT Book Review One Book at a Time, for the NY Observer
Public conversations and talks
• Eileen Myles, McNally Jackson• Daniel Mendelsohn, BookCourt • Amy Sohn, WORD Books • Joss Whedon, Brooklyn Academy of Music • Ben Dolnick, Greenlight Books • Renata Adler, McNally Jackson • Lev Grossman, McNally Jackson and at BookCourt
• "Is the Internet Getting Stupider?" at The Lost Lectures • "Whatever happened to 'the queen of the homosexuals'?" at NewYorkScapes, A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Practices, NYU • "Elevations: New York City, Topography and Wealth" at Washington Square Arts Club
