[5] Hoelterhoff is a commentator and editor whose topics have ranged widely over the contemporary world to include opera and theater, art and architecture, literature and travel, and how animals affect our lives.
In this period, she was also a founding editor of SmartMoney magazine, and worked with Harold Evans on creating Conde Nast Traveler.
[8] In 1998, Alfred A. Knopf published her Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, which was widely reviewed.
Her current book project is titled “We Called It Hitler Weather: The Fuhrer From Dawn to Dusk."
Currently she posts daily to a blog called Daisy Mae at Her Interspecies Cafe,[16] created with Mike Di Paola.