Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts in the… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“But maybe rural America isn't dying so much as it's Shucker-ing: adjusting, adapting, becoming something new, getting a new outdoor sign and adding jalapeno… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you think it's… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking. — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“Jeff Beall. Beall was a tall man with a bristling mustache and a wit as dry as sandpaper. He’d drive thirty miles to loan… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
When Holly Madison, Hef's former chief girlfriend, came out with a tell-all book about life in the Mansion, the most bizarre revelation was that,… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“It ended. Of course it did, it finally did, and like a lot of things, by the time it actually ended, people were starting… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
