Amy Rose Spiegel
{{short description|Writer and editor}}
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Amy Rose Spiegel (born December 16, 1990){{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/AmyRosary/status/942047623858589697|title=It's my birthday; I'm 27!|last=Spiegel|first=Amy Rose|date=16 December 2017|website=Twitter|language=en|access-date=2018-01-10}} is a writer and editor. She is the author of Action: A Book About Sex (Grand Central Publishing, 2016) and No One Does It Like You: And 77 Other Illustrated Affirmations (Workman, 2019) and a senior editor at Broadly.
Career
Spiegal was a story editor at Rookie,{{cite news|last1=Abel|first1=Judy|title=Tavi Gevinson of 'Rookie' Inspires Young Women to Create Communities of Self-Empowerment|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/fashion/Tavi-Gevinson-Rookie-Petra-Collins-online-magazine.html|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=2 April 2014}} where she wrote about music, drugs, sex, and body acceptance, as well as hosted a makeup video tutorial series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rookiemag.com/tag/learning-the-face-ics/|title=Rookie » Archives » Learning The Face Ics|last=Rookie|website=www.rookiemag.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-03}}
She became an associate editor at BuzzFeed the day after she graduated from college in December 2012 while contributing to Rookie as a staff writer, later leaving BuzzFeed to take her editing role there.{{cite news|last1=Bloomgarden-Smoke|first1=Kara|title=Rookie's Amy Rose Spiegel is Going to BuzzFeed Music|url=http://observer.com/2012/12/rookies-amy-rose-spiegel-is-going-to-buzzfeed-music/|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=New York Observer|date=24 December 2012}}
She has also been a contributor to Dazed, Rolling Stone,{{cite news|title=Day Pass With Rookie's Amy Rose Spiegel|url=http://www.racked.com/2015/2/12/8028413/racked-x-dazed-present-day-pass|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Racked|publisher=Vox|date=12 February 2015}} NME and MTV.{{cite news|last1=The Editors|title=30 Under 30: The Young Brooklynites We Envy Most|url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/2013/12/30-under-30-the-young-brooklynites-we-envy-most/|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=The L Magazine|date=4 December 2013}}
=''Action: A Book About Sex''=
On May 17, 2016, Spiegel published her first book Action: A Book About Sex with Hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing.{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Action: A Book About Sex by Amy Rose Spiegel. Grand Central, $15.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3449-4|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4555-3449-4|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=April 4, 2016|language=en}}
Reviews note Grand Central positioned the book as self-help, though it might also be classified as memoir, with Spiegel interspersing advice with her own experiences: "Spiegel inserts her own narrative within the instruction, which makes the book less like a textbook and more like it’s a long, handwritten letter covered in cool stickers from a best friend or older sister."{{cite news|last1=Capewell|first1=Jillian|title=A Book About Sex That Doesn't Talk Down To You|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-book-about-sex-that-doesnt-talk-down-to-you_us_57353879e4b060aa7819ee48|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Huffington Post|date=16 May 2016}} In Slate, Christina Cauterucci described Action as "a sex advice book for a new, progressive generation, one whose views on sex are informed by a basic ethos of fluid sexuality, body positivity, and feminist responses to rape culture."{{cite news|last1=Cauterucci|first1=Christina|title=Love, and Do What You Will|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/06/amy_rose_spiegel_s_action_a_book_about_sex_reviewed.html|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Slate|date=10 June 2016}} Writing in The Guardian, Laura Snapes said the book struck the tone of "a wise and experienced companion, whose belief in the reader, whom Spiegel addresses frequently, feels like a dare to trust that you could follow her confident and charming lead."{{cite news|last1=Snapes|first1=Laura|title=Amy Rose Spiegel's Action: a candid guide to 21st-century sexual politics|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/20/amy-rose-spiegel-action-a-book-about-sex|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=The Guardian|date=20 May 2016}}
= ''No One Does It Like You'' =
On April 2, 2019, Workman published Spiegel's second book, No One Does It Like You: And 77 Other Illustrated Affirmations.{{Cite web|url=https://www.workman.com/products/no-one-does-it-like-you|title=No One Does It Like You|website=Workman Publishing|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-03}} The book collected and expanded on Spiegel's monthly illustrated advice column for Lenny Letter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lennyletter.com/contributor/amy-rose-spiegel|title=Amy Rose Spiegel Latest Articles|website=Lenny Letter|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}
=Enormous Eye=
Spiegel created the website Enormous Eye.{{cite news|last1=Yohannes|first1=Neyat|title=The badass 20-something lady writers who are getting me through my 20s|url=http://hellogiggles.com/20-something-writers/|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=HelloGiggles|date=11 August 2015}} Launched on Valentine's Day 2015, the Enormous Eye is a collection of essays with contemporary writers recording their thoughts and activities over the course of one Saturday. Contributors have included Tavi Gevinson,{{cite news|last1=Flores|first1=Jayson|title=9 of the best posts Tavi gevinson has ever written|url=http://www.nylon.com/articles/tavi-gevinson-posts|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Nylon|date=August 10, 2015|language=en}} Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Doreen St. Félix, among others.{{cite news|last1=Natasha Young|title=This Woman Has An Enormous Eye|url=http://www.refinery29.com/2016/01/100521/amy-rose-spiegel-enormous-eye|accessdate=23 March 2017|work=Refinery29|date=January 4, 2016}}
References
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External links
- [https://amyrosespiegel.com Amy Rose Spiegel]
- [https://enormouseye.com/ Enormous Eye]
- [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-rose-spiegel/action/9781455534500/ Action: A Book about Sex]
- [https://therumpus.net/2016/07/the-rumpus-interview-with-amy-rose-spiegel/ The Rumpus Interview With Amy Rose Spiegel]
- [http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/06/sex-lives-trump-tower.html?mid=twitter_cut Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel] on New York Magazine podcast Sex Lives
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Category:American relationships and sexuality writers
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American magazine editors
Category:American women non-fiction writers