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personal essays + reflections on politics, religion, and literature from the happiest woman on substack
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microwaves are ugly (opens the original)
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My lack of and persistent refusal to invest in a microwave has caused untold grief to many house guests. At one point, my sister offered to buy me one, out of pity. What she did not understand then and what most people do not understand is that it is not a question of money, or even a lack of space in my minuscule kitchen. I reject the microwave because I find it deeply ugly. I’ll say this again: a nice looking microwave never existed.I think about what Alice Waters says about beauty in Coming t
round up (opens the original)
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“My Larval Roommates” by Sarah Nicole Prickett for The Paris Review. I love the Home Improvements column so much, and this was a delightful read.“In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” by Nikole Hannah-Jones for The New York Times, like everyone else. My brief take: I felt that her
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Here are some things I’ve read, eaten, enjoyed, disliked, etcetera.“One Art”, a beautiful villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop. Going to out myself as a philistine here and say I really LIKE it when poems rhyme! This sent me down a deep Elizabeth Bishop rabbit hole for a week. I had no idea who she was before and now I know way too much about her life. I even signed up for JSTOR to read “Elusive Mastery: The Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’”, an essay by Brett
nyc diary (opens the original)
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I’ve been in New York for a few weeks and I thought I should write something about it. For a long time, I had nothing to say. I’ve visited this city so many times, that I have neither the perspective of a tourist, nor a local. My experience of this city has no real patina to it. But nothing feels particularly new to me either, because I end up seeing the same people and doing the same things and eating the same food.For the first time in nearly seven years, I am not working, and I am taking to t
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