Dear Diary

Following a remarkable run in its singular hardcover format (over 20,000 copies in print after two printings) and having captured a devoted fan base that continues to grow, Dear Diary arrives in trade paperback.

Within only several months of its release, this highly acclaimed title reached thousands of readers who sparked enthusiastic discussions on MySpace Books, was covered exhaustively on teen and literary blogs alike, and repeatedly hit the top of numerous must-read lists at Amazon. With glowing reviews from national publications like Jane and Paper magazines, who have generated an electrifying buzz with praise of its unique sensibility and sincerity, Dear Diary is undoubtedly on its way to becoming a teen classic in the vein of Go Ask Alice and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Lesley Arfin was born in Long Island, NY in 1979. She graduated with a BA from Hampshire College in 2001. Besides writing the “Dear Diary” column in Vice, she has written a number of other articles for the magazine, including “The Vice Guide to Guilty Pleasure” and “The Vice Guide to Finding Yourself,” both of which appeared in The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll. Her work has also appeared in Jane, i-D, Nylon, Paper, and Fashion Now 2 (Taschen, 2005). She lives in New York City.