Rebecca Fishbein

Rebecca Fishbein is a New York writer whose essays and reporting often turn everyday frustrations into sharply observed personal narratives. Good Things Happen to People You Hate, published by William Morrow in 2019, gathers essays about friendship, work, housing, family, and the uneasy social rules of city life. Fishbein previously worked on staff at Gothamist and has contributed to Jezebel, Vice, The Cut, and national newspapers. Her later book Floral Estrangements turns the Victorian language of flowers into an illustrated, satirical guide to pointed messages and social grievances. Across both collections, she combines memoir with cultural commentary and a comic eye for embarrassment, resentment, and contradiction.