Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street. She has been a crime reporter for the New York Post, a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, a theater critic for New York magazine, and a ghostwriter or co-author of seven books for major publishers, including four bestsellers. She has written essays for O, NewYorker.com, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and the New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn.