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For people who like their essays personal and their humor dark, a newsletter about the body and the world and what to do with either of them. From novelist Isabel Kaplan.
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I Meant for This to Be a Light List (opens the original)
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In this newsletter, a roundup of some things I’ve been thinking about and reading and watching, including El niño, Unabomber, Alpha School, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an AI Apocaloptimist, Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms and Isolation Journals Substack and American Symphony.El NiñoIt’s hard to fathom - but the weather doesn’t care if we can fathom it or not. I mean, maybe the AI agents gone rogue will get us all first, but at the moment of this writing, I feel like I’m in the “learning ne
On warming waters and blood draws (opens the original)
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A letter from my future self (opens the original)
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Are you a new-school-supplies new-me September person or a year is nearly over September person?It’s particularly easy to be the latter if you’re Jewish, given the Jewish calendar. High Holidays generally fall in September. The year literally is over and you are explicitly invited to reflect on it. (Rosh Hashanah is this weekend. Shanah tovah!)I’m a sucker for opportunities to reflect on any given period of time and how I spent it. (Me, pass up a chance for self-criticism?) It
Summer sketches (opens the original)
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A selection of spreads from this summer’s sketchbooks, in roughly chronological order, from Cozumel to Cabo to the Sea of Cortez, then back to Los Angeles…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="340.11675824175825" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/f
Swimming with killer whales, and other things I’ve been up to (opens the original)
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Hi. It’s been a while. Sorry. I owe more than a few updates – and for those of my readers who have very kindly checked in to see if I’m doing okay, thank you! Your kind words mean a lot. AM I doing okay?There have been extraordinary moments this summer where the answer is an emphatic, gratitude-filled YES. I have lived and experienced more in the past two months than I did in the preceding twelve months put together. There have also been moments when the healing narrative I am constructing and d
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