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My Favorite Substack-Inspired Finds! (opens the original)
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I am chronically on Substack, and if you are too (which I'm guessing many of you are, rightttt?), you already know: the recommendations are better than anywhere else on the internet. Books, fashion, food, life - the well-read, well-fed, well-dressed writers of Substack have never steered me wrong. So today's letter is a love note to all of it; the things I have I've read, worn, cooked, and loved because of them. Enjoy! Subscribe nowReading Recs: I get so much of
What I Devoured This Month (Books + TV Edition) (opens the original)
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Today's letter is full of good stuff: a non-fiction book so brilliantly written and so utterly engrossing that I annoyed everyone around me by talking about it nonstop, a book that read like the manuscript of an A24 film, and is in fact becoming one; two Booker Long-listed reads; and two TV shows I devoured including one I binged mid-flight over the Atlantic because I physically could not stop.Keeping these special recs just for special, fabulous, lovely paid subscribers today… Come and join us
What should you read next? (opens the original)
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Today’s letter is brought to you by Book of the Month. I’ve had a run of really great reads the last few weeks, and hopefully I’ll get my thoughts organized soon so I can share all of them with you soon - the post vacation return to the world has been slow at best! I want that streak of great reading to keep going, so for my next couple of reads I’m relying on Book of the Month,
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY (opens the original)
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I actually wrote this list for myself because, even though I very publicly write about and recommend books, my friends and family still constantly come to me and ask, “What should I read next?”So I wanted to create a never-fail list for those moments when you just need something really good to recommend or more importantly when you just need something good to read yourself. So basically I have distilled the ethos of this entire Substack, in which I pour my heart and soul, into one singular post!
The List: Books that Obama and I Agree On! (opens the original)
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Obama releases his summer and annual reading lists that are full of interesting, diverse, excellent non-fiction and fiction reads, so I went through the last 10 years of his lists and picked out 10 of my favourites (which was really hard as there are SO many good ones). So what I am saying is that Obama and I worked on this list together, a real duo, a partnership if you will.. and if you don’t like any of the books here you can take that up with Obama. Before we dive into the list, first we nee
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