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The books I read when I was chronically depressed
June 29, 2023
For some of these "read" is an exaggeration; I didn't get my ability to read consecutive pages at a time back for several months. But even skipping around in...
Postcards
February 21, 2023
The main difference between the movie version and the book version of Postcards From The Edge is that the first one has a plot grafted onto it. It’s a good...
Newsletter BTS
January 18, 2023
Hi! Yesterday I launched a new newsletter, Making It, which is part of my job. SUBSCRIBE??? The gist is that I interview a different creative person every...
The Universal Review: Non-alc "Drinks"
September 30, 2022
I had not CRIED cried yet today. I mean, I had been stifling the odd sob here and there and sort of cry-talked through a crucial portion of my intake session...
No more premium subscriptions!
August 16, 2022
Hi! Thank you so much for subscribing to this newsletter. I eliminated the paid subscription option because, starting sometime this Fall, I will be launching...
new mental illness pasta just dropped
June 28, 2022
Hi guys, I alluded on Twitter recently to some events that occurred in cursed home of Ben and Jerry's and paddleboarding. Y’all wanna hear a story about how...
Wai? Café Pasta
June 7, 2022
There’s a recipe in my repertoire that I only make in times of emotional extremity, sort of like how Rachel Samstat makes mashed potatoes when she’s...
The Birth of Raffi (7 years ago today at 11:18 PM EST)
June 2, 2022
(this is the unedited text of an email sent 6/6/2015 to Jessica Stanley and Meaghan O'Connell) "I feel like I've been drafting this email in my mind in all...
It gets so hard just to be okay
$ · May 5, 2022
This is my newsletter where I complain, so I'm just going to complain about some things in my life really quick. I have been trying not to do this but it's...
Choose my own adventure
April 4, 2022
Recently I found myself in a haze of scrolling during which I came across a TikTok account called "Farkakte Apartments." Each of these toks features a cute...
Mama bear
March 21, 2022
On the plane to LA I remembered that the last time I'd visited LA -- in 2018 -- I'd watched Better Things on the plane and really liked it. Pamela Adlon's...
More Keith Gessen: The future, Ovechkin, Putin's face, and good Twitter users
$ · March 1, 2022
Hi, welcome back to our ongoing interview series with international correspondent Keith Gessen, who is also my husband, as you know. Let's get right into it....
Understanding the Russia situation via one quick email exchange with Keith Gessen
$ · February 23, 2022
It's been a minute since I did a subscriber-only email, for which I'm very sorry! It's a good thing I don't have a fat Substack contract to lose, because I...
Complaint: Covid edition!
February 16, 2022
Having Covid has completely emptied my brain of thoughts, just scooped it clean like what you do to a pumpkin when you're making a jack o'lantern. I've spent...
"3 kids 1 swab" and other modern classic newsletters
February 6, 2022
Ilya tested positive for Covid on Thursday morning and since then we have all just been, I guess, waiting around to get Covid. He's fine, he will be fine,...
The healing fantasy of "The Sex Lives of College Girls"
$ · January 28, 2022
tw: sexual assault, flashbacks to college While Keith was in Russia I watched the HBOMax sitcom "The Sex Lives of College Girls" in its entirety, even though...
A weekend in Dreamland
January 25, 2022
This coming April, Semiotext(e) will publish the most comprehensive collection of Cookie Mueller's writing to date, an updated and expanded version of...
my harrowing 36 hours without caffeine
January 14, 2022
Because I like to always have a Sisyphean, money-burning personal project going on in the background of my life, I decided toward the end of 2021 that I...
first complaint of 2022!
January 7, 2022
Unfortunately my brain won't let me write anything else until I address this directly, so I have to start by saying that my recent radio silence is the...
I'd change my life to better suit your mood
$ · December 21, 2021
Skip this if you haven't seen Pen15 in its entirety including the finale and also skip this if you aren't in the right headspace to think about teenage...
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