Help keep Salon independent

Julie Klam

Julie Klam is a writer living in New York City. Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can’t Live Without is her fourth book, and just came out from Riverhead in October.

Renee Zellweger (AP/Jordan Strauss)

I know Renee Zellweger’s pain

Julie Klam
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-719509p1.html'>Tami Freed</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Halloween 2012: What’s scary?

Jonathan Lethem, Peter Trachtenberg, Jennifer Gilmore, Kate Christensen, Meg Wolitzer, Julie Klam
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-235126p1.html'>Frank Jr</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My lifelong pursuit of ghosts

Julie Klam
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Your wife is the worst

Julie Klam