Geek Girl Of The Week: Kelly Cutrone

You might not guess it from her signature stark, all-black wardrobe, but Kelly Cutrone is a style maven like no other.

Geek Girl Of The Week: Lorrie Moore

Some women seek therapy from psychologists; others seek self help from Lorrie Moore. Specifically, they seek Self Help, Moore’s wildly successful and insightful collection of short stories about love, loss, and ambition.

Geek Girl Of The Week: Amy Sedaris

Much like Vegemite and Josh Groban, Amy Sedaris is an acquired taste. It’s not because she’s unfunny—it’s almost that she’s too funny. Her comedy knows no limits or boundaries, which can at times annoy people to no end or make them violently uncomfortable and even ill.

Geek Girl Of The Week: Sloane Crosley

If it weren’t for being locked out of two different Manhattan apartments twice in the same day, Sloane Crosley might not have written her debut collection of essays I Was Told There’d Be Cake. (Big ups to ineptitude!

Geek Girl Of The Week: Sofia Coppola

Audiences didn’t expect much from Sofia Coppola after she was pelted with metaphorical tomatoes for her dreadful acting performance as Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III, but the daughter of famed director Francis Ford Coppola wasn’t ready to say arrivederci to the cinema just yet.

Geek Girl Of The Week: Genevieve Gorder

We first became smitten with Genevieve Gorder when she appeared on everyone’s favorite flip-flop decorating show Trading Spaces; however, we fell into flawlessly designed love when she launched her own show on HGTV, Dear Genevieve, where she tackles all sorts of real-life design challenges.

Geek Girl Of The Week: Chlöe Sevigny

if cool were a commodity, Chlöe Sevigny would be Warren Buffet—or at least Jimmy Buffet. (Goodness knows those Parrotheads have afforded him to live pretty damn comfortably.)

More about Leslie Simon

Leslie is the author of Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World, out now through It Books. She is also the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.