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Zan Romanoff

Zan Romanoff
Zan Romanoff is a full-time freelance writer and the author of the novels A Song to Take the World Apart, Grace and the Fever, and Look. Her essays and journalism have appeared in print and online in Buzzfeed, The Cut, Eater, GQ, The LA Times, The New Republic, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. She lives and writes in LA.
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Finding Utopias Where We Can: On Hopeful Living as Resistance

Zan Romanoff Reads Adrian Shirk’s Heaven is a Place on Earth
April 4, 2022  By Zan Romanoff
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Writing the Story of a Disappearing City

Zan Romanoff on the Shifting Identities of Los Angeles
June 4, 2020  By Zan Romanoff
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The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller's In the Land of Men
February 10, 2020  By Zan Romanoff
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Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

How a Run-Down Hollywood Hotel Achieved Legend Status
May 7, 2019  By Zan Romanoff
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Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood

How Lili Anolik Finally Got Her Subject to Talk
January 10, 2019  By Zan Romanoff
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Francesca Lia Block is a Lot More than Weetzie Bat

The Beloved Writer on Defying Expectations and Trying New Things
May 7, 2018  By Zan Romanoff
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The Joy and Intimacy of the Personal Writing Outlet

Why So Many Writers Are Choosing to Share Some Work for Free
February 21, 2018  By Zan Romanoff
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More than the Beauty or the Heroine

On Books by Julie Buntin and Carolyn Murnick That Complicate a Girlhood Trope
September 20, 2017  By Zan Romanoff
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