All posts by Alizah Salario

April 12th, 2012

Not Just A Review, My Life and The Fallback Plan

I thought I’d managed to sidestep the purgatorial phase between college and adulthood. Immediately after graduation, a friend hooked me up with a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica. I’d lined up an (unpaid) internship at Ms. Magazine and a hostessing gig at a trendy restaurant on Ocean Avenue. …more

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May 5th, 2011

Aggregation Killed the Journalism Star

In 2003 I was fresh out of college and interning at Ms. Magazine. I first saw Arianna Huffington at the magazine’s editorial offices, where she was holding a press conference to discuss the numerous sexual harassment charges against her gubernatorial opponent, Arnold Schwarzenegger. …more

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December 29th, 2010

Falling in Love with AHWOSG 10 Years Later

I hate it when people buy me books for the holidays. I’m a firm believer that certain books enter into our lives at exactly the right moments …more

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Alizah Salario is a freelance journalist living in New York. Her work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Women's eNews, at the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She blogs at www.alizahsalario.com.

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