Emma Straub Archive

The author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures logs seven days of pop-culture consumption.

It's so nice to see everyone all dressed up like real people.

Does anyone else want our main character to stop slumping around the room and complaining?

Now we know who's buying the apartments in those giant high-rises by the water in Williamsburg. That guy.

The girls head to deepest Brooklyn for a party. Crack is possibly taken.

We see from whence Hannah came, as she heads back to Michigan.

It appears that all Hannah wants is a good story.

Alert the media! Some people of color have arrived! Secretaries and nannies, of course.

Hannah confronts her gay ex-boyfriend and Marnie gets seduced by the Lonely Island.

Abortion, ill-advised date-rape jokes, and a little Tasti-D-Lite.

New York Magazine