Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Writer @ Large
 
Cultural Reporting
 
Is the Right Chemistry a Click Nearer?
(The New York Times , February 2006)
Run Off and Join the Circle
(O Magazine, November 2003)
Need a Minister? How About Your Brother?
(The New York Times, 1/12/2003)
Corporate Bad Guys Make Many Seek the Road Less Traveled
(The New York Times, 7/21/2002)
Split the Check: New York's Free Lunch Is Gone
(The New York Times, 4/1/2001)
Plug In, Start Up, Drop In
(Business 2.0, October 2000)
In Women's Groups, Back to 'Girl Talk'
(The New York Times, 4/11/1999)
Under Age: Adolescent Looks Are All The Rage
(Vogue, August 1999)
Rooming With a Guy Named Mom
(The New York Times, 1/24/1999)
How To Talk Dirty And Influence People
(Paper, January 1999) - PDF
Girls School Seeks to Overcome Tech Gender Gap
(Wired, 10/24/97)
  Sacred Raves
(Yoga Journal, 1995) - PDF
   

Essays
 
The Multi-Tasking Man
(What Makes a Man - Riverhead Books, January 2004)
For a Merry Prankster, A Day-Glo-Free Funeral
(The New York Observer, 4/1/2002)
Alter Angst? Cyber-Rabbi To the Rescue!
(The New York Observer, 1999) - PDF
The Night We Met Mom's Analyst
(The New York Observer, 1996) - PDF
Investigative Reporting
 
Adventurous SWF seeking sould mate gets hottie (and bothered)
Sick of metrosexuals who sip wine through a straw, one active babe braves the wilds of SingleAndActive.com in search of a hunk who knows a bowline from a bow tie. Will she find true love--or the man of her screams?
(Outside Magazine, July 2006)
High Anxiety: Young, Smart, Successful, Popular -- and a nervous wreck. Rachel Lehmann-Haupt confronts her inner bag lady.
(O Magazine, May 2005)
Sex In The City: Law Enforcement's Newest Weapon Against the World's Oldest Profession
(Self, September 1999)
Hey Nynex - Speed It Up Already!
(The New York Observer, 8/5/1996)
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Travel Writing
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. The Sweetness of Doing Nothing
On an 800 Acre Estate in Umbria, five women savor the long days of yoga and cooking classes.
(Lexus Magazine, 2006) - PDF
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Books
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. Airplane Yoga
(Riverhead Books, September 2003)
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Bio
 
  Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is an author, essayist and journalist based in the West Village of Manhattan. When she's not reporting undercover with prostitutes or ravers, observing fashion trends in American malls, or surfing secret beaches in Mexico, she writes about gender politics and media culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Salon.com, Self, Glamour, Vogue, Business Week, Self, O magazine, and Alternet.com, and her essay "The Multi-Tasking Man" appeared in What Makes a Man:22 Writers Imagine the Future, edited by Rebecca Walker (Riverhead Books, 2004) She also works as a freelance editor and has been a senior editor at Folio:magazine.

She has a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College, where she graduated with high honors, and an MA from The Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley she was founding editor of F magazine, a post feminist zine for which she received a fellowship from Women in Communications, Inc. and she served as Editor in Chief of Alta California magazine. She was also an assistant editor to Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine, at The Felker Magazine Center.
Contact
 
rachel at lehmannhaupt dot com