Articles by Cat Marnell

Cat Marnell

Cat Marnell is a 29-year-old Condé Nast drop-out and former beauty editor at "Lucky" and xoJane.com who has also worked exclusively in beauty at "Teen Vogue," "Glamour," "Nylon," and lots of other vaguely zzZZzz women’s mags. She quits every job she has to party and lives hard in downtown NYC.

Amphetamine Logic

Goodbye to All That (the End for Now)

Amphetamine Logic was kind of making me psychotic. I sat down for lunch with my agent at an overpriced bistro on Park Avenue South. "So Cat," Byrd Leavell, literary agent extraordinaire, said. "What's new?" Full story

2013 Jan 3 Cat Marnell Stuff

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The End, Part One

Amphetamine Logic is coming to an end. I am better and I will continue to get better, and it doesn't matter to me that you don't want to believe this, or don't understand what it means. Full story

2012 Sep 6 Cat Marnell

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The Cockroach and the Cokehead

May 2012: I quit my job and burn all my bridges so I can swim. I won't realize that was wishful thinking until a few months later. Summer starts gliding by like a sailboat. I master the Dead Man's Float. I'm not working and life is a lazy river; I'm a pinecone that's been dropped… Full story

2012 Aug 16 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Graffiti, Crackheads, More Cocaine, Miami (Bitch)

I’m sleeping alone in the backseat of a parked rental car at 5 AM in a terrible neighborhood in Miami when the door opposite me clicks open and a grizzly old black drunk man slides in next to me, shutting the car door behind him. His eyes and skin are the color of urine, and he s… Full story

2012 Aug 10 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Coke Sex for Teen Sluts

Sometimes when a dick is inside me I can’t help but think about my family. I know that sounds totally gross, but I don’t mean it in, like, an incestuous way. My dad never fucked me or anything. I think it has more to do with guilt, you know, or I’m ashamed, for whatever nutty rea… Full story

2012 Aug 2 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Dawn of the Dustheads

It's 5 AM on a Thursday and Same and I are in my apartment in the East Village, high on PCP and surrounded. All of the men are nursing 40 oz. Ballantines and the girls they brought are strangers, looking around at my strange life and into my mirrored coffee tables as they reappl Full story

2012 Jul 26 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Disappeared

A few days ago the text came. It was from a 202 number—D.C. "Call Paul at 202XXXXXXX or your dad if you want to know what's going on," it read. Full story

2012 Jul 19 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Bloodsuckers and Condé Nast-ys

Three years ago I was running around with sociopaths and addicts. Predators who took me to the projects to spend my money on crack and heroin and snap obscene Polaroids of me when I fell asleep. Full story

2012 Jul 12 Cat Marnell Stuff

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Blonde on (Very Famous) Blonde

It’s the 'Purple Magazine' party during Fashion Week and I’m at a booth with my friends. And then there's Lindsay Lohan. Full story

2012 Jul 5 Cat Marnell Stuff

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The Aftermath

If you live in my neighborhood, maybe you’ve seen me. If you read beauty and style blogs, or the "Page Six" in the past week, you’ve probably at least heard of me. My name is Cat Marnell. Full story

2012 Jun 21 Cat Marnell Stuff

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