Patricia Marx Patricia Marx is a humorist and staff writer for The New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and on NPR. She is the author of several fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, including “Him Her Him Again the End of Him,” “Starting from Happy: A Novel,” and “Now Everybody Really Hates Me.” Formerly, Patricia was a screenwriter for Saturday Night Live and taught screenwriting and humor writing at Princeton University, New York University, Columbia University, and Stonybrook University. She was the first woman elected to Harvard Lampoon and was a recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.• Author of numerous books, including two finalists for the Thurber Prize• Staff writer for The New Yorker• Received the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship award About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process