KATHERINE ROSMAN

October 10, 2017

In Love With Romance Novels, but Not Their Lack of Diversity

Earlier this year, after having seen books like “Heroine Complex,” “Trade Me” and “Forbidden” fly off shelves at the Ripped Bodice, their Culver City, Calif., bookstore […]
September 27, 2017

Kids Make the Darndest Viral Videos

Mila and Emma Stauffer, 2-year-old twin sisters who live with their parents and three older siblings near Phoenix, were sitting on the floor, having a discussion […]
September 14, 2017

How to Quit a Magazine, by Cindi Leive

Cindi Leive, the editor in chief of Glamour, says that a writer has about three seconds to grab a reader’s attention, so let’s blurt this out: […]
September 2, 2017

Want to Have a Good Day? Try Making the Bed First

When Adm. William H. McRaven, retired, was stationed in Afghanistan, his days were filled with chaos and unpredictability. “We could have soldiers dying and the horror […]
August 19, 2017

Cultural Studies: 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined

In a new novel called “Imagining Diana,” readers find Princess Diana having lunch in Midtown Manhattan at Michael’s, nodding hello to Barbara Walters on her way […]
July 20, 2017

The Mad Scientist Behind Nike’s ‘Back to the Future’ Sneaker

BEAVERTON, Ore. — The only things missing were a white lab coat and an electrified hairdo as Tiffany Beers, 37, showed off an assortment of boots […]
July 1, 2017

Encounters: How a ‘Hamilton’ Super Fan Got Cast in the Broadway Show

Encounters By KATHERINE ROSMAN At the Richard Rodgers Theater on a rainy and humid Saturday in June, J. Quinton Johnson, 22, crossed from stage left to […]
June 1, 2017

Eric Goode, a New York Night-Life Impresario, Takes on Trump

Eric Goode, 59, is a New York entrepreneur who is an owner of downtown establishments like the Bowery Hotel and the Waverly Inn. He was a […]
May 10, 2017

The Property Brothers Are Fixing to Take Over the World

GALVESTON, Tex. — Inside a bungalow under renovation, Jonathan Scott, one half of the squeaky-clean Property Brothers, was yanking a toilet out from the floor. “Let’s […]
April 22, 2017

Forget Netflix and Chill. Try Pure Flix and Pray.

CHICAGO — Before breakfast at Sixteen, a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel and Tower here the morning after the premiere for the film “The Case […]