Articles Written By Leah Finnegan
TMN Editor Leah Finnegan is from Illinois by way of Texas. She splits her time between New York City and her website.
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Just the Same as You and I
Shorty
When you were a toddler, doctors told your parents you had a “failure to thrive.” Which means: You’re small, and you’re going to be short. Later, when medication helps you grow faster than you’ve ever grown before, the hardest part may be deciding when to stop.
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Portraits by Other Means
Feel the Burn
Jimmy Carter It is the kind of scene that happens every weekend all over the country, but this one is by now part of presidential history—the middle-aged runner...
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Portraits by Other Means
The Things They Married
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow* (not married) Then in April 1979, [Farrow] noticed a picture of Allen on the cover of this magazine. He had on a scruffy sweater and was...
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Portraits by Other Means
Hobby Lobby
Dalai Lama, His Holiness of Tibet Until early 1960, I had some interest in photography, but not since then. Of course, I still love different flowers. And occasionally I do some...
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Portraits by Other Means
Best Friends
Sheryl Crow and Bob Dylan “I called [Bob Dylan]…I said, ‘I am totally wigged out and I don’t know what I’m supposed...
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Portraits by Other Means
Our Previous Careers
Nicholson Baker By then Baker already had notions of becoming a writer, even though one of his teachers put this comment on a story he turned in: “This, to...
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Portraits by Other Means
Tattoo You and Me
Marc Jacobs, Designer Jacobs has the word “perfect” tattooed on his right wrist. “Because I am a perfect being in a perfect world where everything that happens...
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Portraits by Other Means
Tweeting Into Oblivion
Gene Sharp, Intellectual In this era of Twitter revolutionaries, the Internet holds little allure for Mr. Sharp. He is not on Facebook and does not venture onto the Einstein website. (...
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Portraits by Other Means
Trials, Triumphs, and What They Wore
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State The pantsuit is Clinton’s uniform. Hers is a mix-and-match world, a grown-up land of Garanimals: black pants with gray jacket, tan jacket with...
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Portraits by Other Means
Our Better Halves
Pearl I, II, and III, Shorthaired Pointers [Robert Parker] preferred staying in and watching baseball games with his German shorthaired pointer, Pearl. Mr. Parker had three German shorthairs named Pearl;...
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Portraits by Other Means
The Diets of Others
The Terrorist Diet [In Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden] no longer slaughtered a lamb every day to serve his guests; now he rarely ate meat, preferring to live on dates, milk,...
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Letters From Cairo
Six Cabs to Superior Understanding
Foreign correspondents love to interview local cab drivers for their political opinions. Or sometimes just to hear the best jokes.