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Kerry Howley

Features Writer, New York Magazine

Kerry Howley is an L.A.-based features writer for New York Magazine and a three-time National Magazine Award nominee. Previously she was a professor at the University of Iowa’s nonfiction-writing M.F.A. program. She is the author of Thrown and Bottom’s Up and the Devil Laughs.

  1. profile
    Jorie Graham’s Late WorkHow the poet — living with cancer, reeling from her mother’s death, and isolated on an island — wrote one of the finest books of her long career.
  2. power
    House of SpearsOne year ago, Britney Spears was freed from a notorious conservatorship. What possessed her father to seize near-total control of her life?
  3. obits
    Joan Didion and the Courage to Say What You MeanThe lesson to take from her is one of wild conviction.