He added that “the bulk of the conversation” he had with Mr. MacArthur, which took place last Friday afternoon, “was about Katie Roiphe’s piece.” Harper’s is a nonprofit publication supported in large part by a foundation established by Mr. MacArthur, who is known as Rick, and his father, J. Roderick MacArthur.
Katie Roiphe. Katie Roiphe is the author of several books, including The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Uncommon Arrangements, In Praise of Messy Lives, and The Violet Hour.Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and Tin.
Apparently Katie Roiphe is a very controversial writer, and although I didn't agree with everything she wrote in this collections of essays, I agreed with her most of the time. The first essay was spectacular--worth the price of the book--for anyone going through a life change (in Ms. Roiphe's case separation and divorce) that is assumed to be only bad, but that also may have a hidden upside.
Two is Better Than One Katie Roiphe, American author and journalist, declares that “We now live in a country in which 53 percent of the babies born to women under 30 are born to unmarried mothers” (58). In Roiphe’s essay “In Defense of Single Motherhood,” she discusses society's notion that single mothers are bad mothers.
In January, rumors circulated that Harper’s would be publishing a story written by Katie Roiphe, in which she planned to name the creator of the Shitty Men in Media list. Soon after, the creator of the list — Moira Donegan — ended up outing herself in an essay for the Cut, and by February, Roiphe’s (boring) story came out. But on Tuesday, the saga continued, as Harper’s editor James.
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In Praise of Messy Lives (2012) collects thirty articles by the journalist and academic Katie Roiphe. They originally appeared in various periodicals including The New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, and the online magazine Slate. The articles are arranged into four sections.