miss may does not exist promo, mentions, and interviews (reviews here)
print:
Paperback Row – New York Times Best Sellers list
The Culture Desk: Elaine May Is the GOAT of Improv Comedy – New York Times
Elaine May, Ahead of Her Time – New York Times
Elaine May wasn’t involved with her biography. That didn’t stop this author from telling the comedy icon’s complex story – Los Angeles Times
10 books to add to your reading list in June – Los Angeles Times
Nichols and May: Take Two | The New Yorker
The Approval Matrix – New York Magazine (Miss May plotted highbrow and brilliant!)
Looking For Elaine May: On Tracking Down an Elusive Comedy Legend – Literary Hub
Hollywood’s Hidden Genius – Air Mail
Holiday gift ideas for the movie lover – AP
The 2024 Little White Lies Christmas Gift Guide – Little White Lies
Crooked Marquee’s Ultimate Gift Guide for the Movie Lover in Your Life – Crooked Marquee
Searching for Elaine May – The Melt by Jason Diamond
The Books I Loved This Year – The Melt by Jason Diamond
Writing About Elaine May: An Interview with Carrie Courogen – Bright Wall/Dark Room
5 Authors Talk Their Highly-Anticipated Summer Books – L’Officiel USA
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week – Literary Hub
The Best Reviewed Books of June – Literary Hub
The Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2024 So Far – Tertulia
An Evening of Tall Tales with Elaine May at Metrograph – The Film Stage
Elaine May Finally Gets the Biography She Deserves – The Film Stage
Five Books on the Moodboard for My Biography of Elaine May – Tertulia
Margin Notes: An Interview with Carrie Courogen – Garden State Lantern
FIRST Book Club’s Fall Picks – First For Women Magazine
audio:
The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell interview – KCRW
The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast – The Heartbreak Kid
A Very Good Year podcast
That’s Entertainment podcast with Tom Knoblauch
The Izzy and Murtada Picture Show podcast
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast
Filmwax podcast
BETA – Wisconsin Public Radio
A Breath of Fresh Movie podcast
The Lives They’re Living podcast
From The Bookshelf podcast
Why Does the Wilhelm Scream podcast
Naked Lunch podcast with Phil Rosenthal and David Wild featuring Bonnie Hunt
video:
A New Leaf 4k restoration dvd bonus featurette interview
National Book Critics Circle Awards reading ceremony
Underexposed with Alex Berg
Ishtar talkback at Sag Harbor Cinema
video
Elaine May short documentary | Academy Awards 2022, dir. Marina Zenovich | appeared in tribute to Elaine May at the 2022 Governors Awards ceremony
print interviews & mentions
65 New Yorkers in Their Favorite Coats and Jackets | New York Magazine | November 2025
My Year in Reading | The Millions | December 2024
Who Wants Joan Didion’s Old Stuff? | The Wall Street Journal | November 2022 | I basically just held myself publicly accountable to not spend an insane amount of money on Joan Didion’s Spode China for a bit.
Four Rarities from the TCM Festival | The New Yorker| May 2021
The Financial Times | ’77 Music Club featured in piece about women in the music podcast space | May 2018
Quiet Lunch | interviewed about ’77 Music Club | May 2018
podcast guest appearances
Podcast Like It’s… | on Bulworth | November 2024
Too Many Minutes | on Sneakers and Robert Redford | October 2024
Podcast Like It’s Double Features | on Joe vs. the Volcano and Aloha | February 2024
Podcast Like It’s 1992 | on Nora Ephron’s directorial debut, This Is My Life | November 2023
Podcast Like It’s Double Features | on my undying love for Reds and Little Women (2019) | June 2023
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers | remembering Christine McVie | December 2022
Podcast Like It’s 1999 | on Ally McBeal | August 2022
Danpilled by Fluxblog | on Steely Dan, Aimee Mann, and more | July 2022
Podcast Like It’s 2009 | on Up In The Air | April 2022
The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast | on Crossing Delancey | November 2021
The Sound of Success with Nic Harcourt | on my sick love of incredibly sad music | October 2021
Podcast Like It’s 1999 | on The West Wing S1E19 (“Let Bartlet Be Bartlet”!) | September 2021
Podcast Like It’s 1989 | on The War of the Roses | June 2021
Exiting Through the 2010s | on Mistress America | April 2021
Podcast Like It’s 1999 | on Sex and the City S2E15 (“Shortcomings”) | March 2021
Eye of the Duck | on Elaine May and Ishtar (1987) | March 2021
The Film Stage | on Elaine May and Mikey and Nicky (1976) | September 2020
Ruined Childhoods | on Elaine May and the reclamation of Ishtar (1987) | April 2020
live q&as, discussions, and radio interviews
Beyond the Acclaimed Debut | Brooklyn Book Festival | September 2025
East Hampton Library’s 21st Annual Authors Night | August 2025
WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart | on the 25th anniversary of Aimee Mann’s Bachelor No. 2 or, The Last Remains of the Dodo | May 2025
KCRW’s The Treat | on Aimee Mann’s Bachelor No. 2 or, The Last Remains of the Dodo | December 2024
Primary Colors 4K Collector’s Edition | provided audio commentary track
London Screenwriters’ Festival | on Elaine May’s work as a script doctor
Cinema St. Louis | on Elaine May and A New Leaf (1971) for its 50th anniversary | June 2021
Just Another Menace Sunday | on Liz Phair and my essay about her in Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop | November 2019
Chris Frantz the Talking Head Show (WPKN) | guest session on Frantz’s monthly radio show, discussing new and notable releases and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | March 2019
BBC Radio 5 | on Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey Buckingham’s departure | April 2018
Radio New Zealand | on Tina Weymouth and misogyny in music criticism | October 2017