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Nancy’s fragile solidity was formed through the volcanic eruptions of her rage and heartbreak, cooled too quickly by the necessities of life and left in what resembled a fixed form.

Lola Milholland • Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir

This is truly a female monstrousness—the joy at being accepted where others of your kind are not.

Claire Dederer • Monsters

But whether Substack is good for writers is one question; another is whether a world in which subscription newsletters rival magazines and newspapers is a world that people want.

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

in March of 2018 she moved to the Bay Area and took some time for herself before reporting to her new job. On her blog she described her feelings of liberation. me after living in the Bay Area for a week: monogamy is hopeless and dying. might as well be a plate for alpha guys while I’m still young/hot enough and freeze my eggs for later

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

On her frame, angular but soft, a baggy T-shirt is coded as “low-maintenance,” not “sloppy”; a ponytail is “sleek,” not “tennis ball on top of a mini-fridge.” Not only can she pull off ugly clothes, like sports sandals, or “boyfriend jeans,” they somehow make her beauty thrum even more clearly.

Lindy West • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

NAM HOON KIM

@nhkim73

the age of the celebutante

John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit

Nicole Li

@ttggbb

hair was contained in a masterful bun. Her competence was on full display.