HeyJaredLyz Mancini: Book Notes
Lyz Mancini is a horror writing, makeup-loving, scent-obsessed copywriter working with brands like Clinique and MAC Cosmetics, and with short stories in Shortwave, Witch Craft, and Apocalypse Confidential. Want a book/perfume pairing? Just ask.
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NY’s Hottest Pet is Pigeon (opens the original)
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The plight of the pigeon is basically Lana-coded in its clandestine melancholia. They were globally beloved until around the 1960s when somehow the perception of them flipped from respected and utilized to being chased by children in various metropolitan parks near bad pretzel stands. We abandoned pigeons — and they haven’t really known what to do since. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZ4Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
I Want Trash, Not Slop (opens the original)
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One of my prized possessions came from the New York State Fair — a short walk from the Dairy building where I chugged freezing cold chocolate milk and around the corner from a station where you could set your middle finger in rainbow ombre wax to, I imagine, display on your living room mantel as a conversation piece for guests. Said beloved item is a trucker hat emblazoned with the words “Diet Coke” airbrushed in sherbet-y shades of neon. I’d requested it special to a befuddled carnie who “didn’
Drama Bonding (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowDazed writer Laura Pitcher published a take the other day titled “We’re Living Through an Explainer Epidemic” that really put into words an issue I’ve been dealing with lately. The sort of dystopian reality that hundreds of thousands of people own tiny microphones and are sort of manically and constantly posting hot (or luke
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