Doree Shafrir

Doree Shafrir
Shafrir at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Nationality USA
Occupation Writer, editor
Employer Buzzfeed
Notable work Postcards from Yo Momma website; Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home collection; STARTUP novel

Doree Shafrir is an American author and senior writer at BuzzFeed.[1] She was previously an editor at Rolling Stone, Gawker and The New York Observer.[2] She is the author of the novel STARTUP and co-editor of the collection Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home.

Career

Shafrir departed a history Ph.D. program to begin her career in journalism at the Philadelphia Weekly, then joining the staff of Gawker in its early years. She next worked for Rolling Stone before joining Buzzfeed in 2012 as an editor and culture writer.[3]

Postcards from Yo Momma website and book

With Jessica Grose, Shafrir founded the Postcards From Yo Momma website, where they posted reader-contributed electronic messages (texts, instant messages, and emails) from their mothers.[4] She and Grose produced a book based on the site, titled Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home, which was published by Hyperion in March 2009.[5][6]

STARTUP

Shafrir's first novel, STARTUP, was published by Little, Brown on April 25, 2017.[7][8] Reviewing the novel in The New York Times, Lara Vapnyar called the book "a biting and astute debut novel".[9] In Rolling Stone, Helen Holmes notes Shafrir is a "a seasoned veteran in the world people still refer to as 'new media'" and says Shafrir's extensive experience in the world she describes "helps give Startup its legs. Her measured eye and wealth of understanding is clear in the rendering of characters like Isabel, an assistant who casually leaves her phone on a coffee table when she goes to the bathroom because the notion of someone snatching it is unthinkable, and Victor, an out-of-work boyfriend convinced he's smarter and more important than his employed partner."[3]

Personal life

Shafrir lived in New York for nine years[2] before moving to Los Angeles, where she lives with husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster.[10] In an interview with Nerdist Shafrir and her husband Mira described meeting through the Tinder dating app.[1] She said she feared they set an unrealistic example, because they fell in love with the first person they met on the site.

References

  1. 1 2 Katie Levine (April 18, 2017). "NERDIST PODCAST: DOREE SHAFRIR". The Nerdist Podcast. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Bonazzo, John (2017-04-20). "This BuzzFeed Writer Turned the Ellen Pao Story Into Spring's Most Anticipated Novel". New York Observer. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  3. 1 2 Holmes, Helen (April 25, 2017). "Sex, Lies and Tech: How New Novel Skewers Startup Culture". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  4. ↑ Schillinger, Liesl. "Your Mother Should Know". ArtsBeat. The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  5. ↑ "Postcards From Yo Momma Analyze Our Mommas". POPSUGAR. May 11, 2009. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  6. ↑ Moore, Jina (2009-05-04). "Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  7. ↑ "STARTUP by Doree Shafrir". Kirkus Reviews. February 2, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  8. ↑ Eric Johnson (April 27, 2017). "Doree Shafrir's new novel 'Startup' is all about sex, lies and digital media". Recode magazine. Retrieved May 6, 2017. Instead, “Startup” traces what happens when a 24-year-old tech reporter uncovers a scandal involving the 28-year-old CEO of a mindfulness app. Shafrir said she specifically wanted to tell a story about today’s New York — not Silicon Valley and not the New York of the past.
  9. ↑ Vapnyar, Lara (8 May 2017). "A Debut Novel Skewers Startup Culture, Click by Click". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "About". Doree Shafrir. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
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