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Yoffe grew up in [[Newton, Massachusetts]] and graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in 1977.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} |
Yoffe grew up in [[Newton, Massachusetts]] and graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in 1977.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} |
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Emily Yoffe (born 1955) is an American journalist. For http://www.slate.com/<ref name=undefined /> she writes http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence.html<ref name=undefined />, Slate’s long-running advice column. As “Prudence,” Emily counsels Slate’s readers on love, work, relationships,overbearing in-laws, and gaseous cubicle mates. The column appears twice a week. She is also the co-host with technology writer Farhad Manjoo on the Slate podcast, http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/manners_for_the_digital_age.html<ref name=undefined />. Emily also writes the Human Guinea Pig column for Slate.com, in which she does things normal people are curious about, but too normal to do. She has taken a vow of silence, worked as a street performer, competed in a matzoh ball eating contest, and entered (and won) the Mrs. Washington D.C. pageant (she was the only contestant). |
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She is the author of the 2005 book http://www.amazon.com/What-Dog-Did-Formerly-Reluctant/dp/B000OFOIYA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325455910&sr=8-1<ref name=undefined />, an account of life with her bra-eating beagle, Sasha. O, The Oprah Magazine, called the book, "laugh out loud funny."The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Yoffe has long been one of the little-known treasures of American journalism - a comic virtuoso who is willing to endure any indignity if it will leave the reader weeping with laughter." |
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She has appeared twice on the Colbert Report, once to discuss the Human Guinea Pig column, and another time for a segment on her Slate piece about narcissistic personality disorder. She has been a guest on a variety of NPR programs. |
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Emily's writing on culture, health, politics and other topics has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, Health, The Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, and The Washington Post. She was a senior editor at Texas Monthly and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Yoffe lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband, a private detective, and their daughter. |
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Revision as of 00:34, 21 January 2012
Emily Yoffe (born 1955) is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day. She has also written for The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Yoffe began her career as a staff writer at The New Republic.
She writes a regular feature on Slate called "Human Guinea Pig", where she takes reader suggestions for strange activities or hobbies to try, and an advice column called "Dear Prudence". For "Human Guinea Pig", she has tried hypnosis,[1] a vow of silence,[2] and get-rich-quick schemes from spam.[3] She has become a telephone psychic,[4] a street performer,[5] a nude model for an art class,[6] a contestant in the Mrs. America beauty pageant, and visited a nudist camp.[7]
In June 2005, Bloomsbury published Yoffe's What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner.[8] That year it was named Best Book of the Year by Dogwise,[citation needed] and selected as the Best General Interest Dog Book by the Dog Writers Association of America.
She was a guest on "The Colbert Report" in 2006 discussing her experiences as Slate's Human Guinea Pig.
On June 25, 2007, Yoffe wrote an op-ed piece for The Washington Post questioning the fear surrounding anthropogenic global warming, charging Al Gore with orchestrating a "campaign ... [of] fright and absolutes."[9] She was criticized by The Daily Howler for writing about a theory based largely on numerical evidence despite having recently written an article about herself titled "The Math Moron" in which she revealed that she tested at a first-grade level in mathematics.[10] [11] Yoffe recently wrote an article, “But Enough About You …What is narcissistic personality disorder, and why does everyone seem to have it?” where she discusses how narcissistic characteristics have added to America’s economic downturn.
Yoffe grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and graduated from Wellesley College in 1977.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Emily Yoffe (2003-12-26). "Got Me Hypnotized". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2004-05-07). "Silent Treatment". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2003-04-11). "Spam I Am". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2003-06-05). "My Life as a Phone Psychic". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2003-10-30). "Mime is Money". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2005-12-15). "Naked and the Dread". Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2004-07-08). "There She Is, Mrs. America. ..." Slate. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. ISBN 978-1582345642
- ^ Emily Yoffe (2007-06-25). "Gloom and Doom in A Sunny Day". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "At long last, Fitzgerald expressed his view—and the press corps failed to report it". The Daily Howler. 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Emily Yoffe (2006-11-14). "The Math Moron". Slate. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
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External links
- Whatthedogdid.com, official website
- Writings by Emily Yoffe on Slate.com
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