Carina Chocano is a journalist and writer. Currently, she is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Chocano has been a staff film and TV critic at the Los Angeles Times, a TV and book critic at Entertainment Weekly, and a staff writer at Salon. Chocano's writing has appeared in Vogue, Elle, and Rolling Stone. Her first book, "You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages," was published in 2017.