Lisa Kogan Telling Your Story with Humor

by: Bay Path College

Lisa Kogan is a writer-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine as well as the author of a monthly column, Lisa Kogan Tells All, which deals with everything from her life as a single, working mother in New York to her search for a decent tomato or pair of bone-colored espadrilles. Lisa also spent seven years at ELLE magazine, where her writing was once described as a cross between George Plimpton and Gidget.

She is also a forty-nine-year-old single mother who maintains that every human being deserves a great mattress, a comfortable pair of shoes, and a very smart shrink, and that no one has grown a decent tomato since 1963. She used to think the world wasn’t all that complicated, but along came AIDS and crystal meth and the tankini, and she had to think again. Still, she’s nostalgic for that time when you were forced to walk all the way across the room to change channels and there was no such thing as a spy satellite capable of spotting the precancerous mole on her left thigh.

Filled with self-deprecating humor and a deep appreciation for what really matters, Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a book for anyone who has ever been unnerved by pleather pants, lunch meat, or ambivalent men (not necessarily in that order), and believes that life is a fragile bit of luck in a world based on chance.