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Better living through pop culture. A newsletter from NYT bestselling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.
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The Best Books to Understand My Books (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton and Leslie Knope (opens the original)
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The Salvation of Local Government, Relentless Optimism, and the Year of the Woman: 'Parks and Rec' Links (opens the original)
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Here are links to all of the sources that informed my book Parks and Rec, including Nick Offerman on why Amy Poehler is a legend, the audience testing that almost sank the show, and the episode that turned the series’ fortunes around.Subscribe nowTrump will win a second term, C
Did Odysseus Start the Fire? (opens the original)
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Going Deep on 'Sex and the City and Us,' 'When Women Invented Television,' and 'So Fetch' (opens the original)
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This is my second of two posts (here’s the first) sharing links to the articles that informed my previous books—basically a more interactive version of my end notes so you can click through at your leisure. I highly recommend scrolling through all of the Mean Girls stuff—lots of good Mean Girls on the internet, which, of course, was a major part of my thesis.Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed th
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