About Jan Harayda
Welcome to Jansplaining!
I’m Jan Harayda, an award-winning critic and journalist on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, carrying a torch for my native New Jersey and my old haunts centered on the New York publishing world. Thank you for stopping by!
I’ve been the book columnist for Glamour, the book editor of Ohio’s largest newspaper, and a vice president of the National Book Critics Circle. Lately I’ve been writing for Medium, a platform with more than a million subscribers worldwide, mostly about books and the media. I’ve also written for many other print and online media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Salon.