Sharon Steel: Clips
Selected Clips
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone
- The Harry Potter Scandals: Lawsuits, parodies, love affairs and more, July 15, 2011
- Oscar's Best Original Songs: The Rightful Winners and the Snubbed Losers, Feb. 25, 2011
- How 16 Rockers Came Out of the Closet: Elton John, George Michael, Lance Bass, Lady Sovereign and more: How these artists have told the world they're gay, Feb. 2, 2011
The Daily Beast
Time Out New York
- James Franco: The Renaissance man wrote, directed and stars in his NYU thesis, April 24, 2012
- Archetypes of NYC daters: We examine characteristics of various NYC singles and couples. Recognize anyone?, Nov. 30, 2011
- Feist: The lo-fi singer-songwriter makes a quietly triumphant return, Oct. 21, 2011
- Jeffrey Eugenides: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores more matters of the heart, Oct. 10, 2011
- Neil Gaiman: The British author draws on punk rock and Twitter for his inspiration, June 13, 2011
- Death Cab for Cutie: Ben Gibbard trades verbose voyages for minimalist melodies, May 23, 2011
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The Hesher star loves Metallica and Mary Poppins, May 9, 2011
- Is Social Media Bad for NYC? Could our compulsive documentation of our lives detract from the experience of really living here?, Nov. 30, 2010 [cover story]
- Rivers Cuomo of Weezer: The indie frontman writes his own rock-star manual, Nov. 22, 2010 [cover story]
- Kristen Stewart: The Twilight star turns to stripping, Oct. 25, 2010
- Exclusive: Letters by J.D. Salinger: The curtain comes up on the reclusive author's private life, detailed in a 40-plus-year correspondence, March 8, 2010
- Tim Burton: The auteur loves his goth fans, March 1, 2010
- Inside the Brain of Kelly Cutrone: The high priestess of fashion PR and newly minted memoirist schools us on her New York, Jan. 25, 2010
Teen Vogue
Foam
The Village Voice
The New York Observer
SPIN
The Boston Phoenix
- Eugenides's updated Austen: Jeffrey does Jane, Oct. 12, 2011
- MTV's Skins: MTV attempts an American do-over, Jan. 26, 2011
- Girls Talk: Sloane Crosley and Emily Gould tell all, June 20, 2010
- Facebook Phobia: Thought high school was bad? Social-networking sites jack up Web-era insecurities, July 16, 2008 [cover story]
- Steam Dream: Steampunk bursts through its subculture roots to challenge our musical, fashion, design, and even political sensibilities, May 19, 2008 [cover story]
- Less Is Best: The spare science of José González, March 4, 2008
- Publish and Perish? Blogging Harvard courses could revolutionize open education--if its contributors aren't expelled first, Feb. 28, 2008
- The Cuteness Surge: Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens, Feb. 1, 2008 [cover story]
- Marketing Magic: Building the new Disney Empire, one tween at a time, Aug. 15, 2007
- Aesthetic Genius: Why can't more writers be smart enough to be beautiful, handsome, or at least cute, Aug. 30, 2007
- The Last Potter: What does the end mean for Harry's strange Boston disciples?, July 24, 2007 [cover story]
- The Best Damn Thing? Whatever, Avril goes straight to the top, May 1, 2007
- Seeing Isn't Believing: Ira Glass takes This American Life to television, March 14, 2007
- Justify My Love: He already brought sexy back. Now can Justin Timberlake shed his boy-band image and become a music legend?, Feb. 5, 2007 [cover story]
CMJ New Music Monthly
Q Magazine