In 2012, beauty writer and noted drug aficionado Cat Marnell sold a book proposal to Simon & Schuster for $500,000. Marnell, known for her xoJane beauty columns about partying, had a gift for glamorizing what would be, in a lesser writer’s hands, perhaps a rock bottom. “Look, I couldn’t spend another summer meeting…
In December, we learned that xoJane’s legendary founder, Jane Pratt, was leaving the company and that the famously controversial personal essay hub would fold into InStyle, signaling the end times for the overly confessional hate-read. (Hearst’s The Mix, more or less cut from the same cloth as xoJane, quietly died…
Cat Marnell recently sat down for a panel with photographer Richard Kern, where the two discussed drugs and girls and Marnell's forthcoming memoir. As ever, Marnell is nothing if not a never-ending stream of soundbites, our favorite being about her writing process and relationship with her book publisher.
In today's Tweet Beat, Cat Marnell hates her book proposal the most out of anyone, Cher continues to be far better at Twitter than any man or beast who has ever graced our planet, and Bob Saget and Diplo both eat burger products alone.
"Between you and me," writes Cat Marnell in the book proposal which netted her a $500,000 advance from Simon & Schuster, "half the time I feel very little remorse. AND I have a massive ego, if I really think about it."
Enabling! What does it mean?! Are we all doing it?! Or, as we all remember from the iconic bedtime story of our childhood: If you give a mouse a cookie, it might overdose on heroin.
Taking a slightly disparaging tone, Page Six recently reported that Cat Marnell, the former xoJane beauty editor with a particular fondness for chronicling her adventures with angel dust, has landed a $500,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster for her memoir, How to Murder Your Life. Impressed?
Infamous writer (and recent Pot Psychology guest) Cat Marnell has teamed up with Married to the M.O.B.'s Leah McSweeney to model graphic leggings for the company's look book. According to the press release, Marnell says, "I write about controversial shit, but at the end of the day, creativity is the fucking drug,…
Welcome back to Pot Psychology, Jezebel's biweekly advice column, in which we attempt to solve people's problems with an herbal remedy. In this episode, the infamous Cat Marnell joins us to discuss drugs, turtle fashion, and boy pee.
Now that Cat Marnell has left her post as beauty editor at xoJane—where, as the site's "beauty and health director" she infamously chronicled the intimate and more fucked-up details of her life like her drug abuse, mental health, and strained relationships—readers are wondering: What Will Happen Next? After all, the…
I'm fascinated by xoJane blogger Cat Marnell. She's ostensibly the Beauty and Health Director for Jane Pratt's site, but her posts — and I would know, because I read every single one — are usually long, rambling essays about her dysfunctional relationship with her father, past mental asylum stays, and on-again…
