Elyssa Goodman

Elyssa Goodman is a New York-based writer and photographer. Her writing has of course appeared in InsideHook, as well as Vogue, Vanity Fair, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and many more. Photography clients and publications include Awkwafina, Sephora, The New Yorker, VICE, Artforum, and Cosmopolitan, among others. In New York, she hosts The Miss Manhattan Non-Fiction Reading, which has been featured in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. You can read her work at elyssamaxxgoodman.com, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @MissManhattanNY.

All Articles From Elyssa Goodman

A One-Stop, Vegas-Inspired Wedding Chapel Has Arrived in Brooklyn

Minus all the Vegas-style kitsch and Elvis-impersonating officiants, of course

Without Martha Cooper, There Would Be No History of New York Graffiti

How the photographer’s subway graffiti project became an essential piece of contemporary art history

For Sotheby's, Sneakers Are Big Business

Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol and... Nike

How The Lox Club Became the Most Exclusive Jewish Dating App Around

A new, members-only Jewish dating app has “ridiculously high standards,” but not in a douchey way.

Designer Menorahs: So Hot Right Now

Judaica Standard Time and Via Maris are making Judaica you’ll want to show off long after Hanukkah

How Betty Dodson Taught the World to Orgasm

A tribute to the sex educator who passed away last month

The Last Days of Manhattan’s Iconic Barbershop, Astor Hair

Beloved by everyone from Bruce Willis to Robert DeNiro, the 70-year-old hair cuttery will close forever on November 25

NYC’s Kimika Is The Japanese-Italian Mashup 2020 Desperately Needed

The pandemic doesn’t stop thoughtful experimentation at the new Nolita spot

Pete Thompson Captured the Greatest Decade in Skateboarding History

His new book is an intimate, gritty and ultimately stunning look into the early life of skateboarding on the East Coast

Elvira Is Staying Home for Halloween This Year

“Everybody thinks you’re a weirdo, but the thing about Elvira is she just keeps going on about her business," the horror icon tells InsideHook

This Book of Erotic Puns Might Just Be the New “Joy of Sex”

In "Carnal Knowledge: Sex Education You Didn’t Get in School," the images are colorful in more ways than one

How Bugs Bunny Became One of America’s Most Enduring Style Icons

Does Mickey Mouse have his own pair of Air Jordans?

How Does One Become a Famous Courtroom Sketch Artist?

Chapman, El Chapo, Cosby, Weinstein, Bannon — Jane Rosenberg has drawn them all

The Photographers Documenting a Very Weird, Violent and Tragic Year

InsideHook talks to three photographers about what it’s been like to shoot the pandemic

Tom of Finland's Legacy Continues a Century After His Birth

During the illustrator’s centenary, InsideHook looks back at a man who created a visual movement.

What Did Slim Aarons Really Think of the Opulent World He Photographed?

The iconic photographer's work at once celebrated and condemned the high society it documented