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Elif Batuman's perfect piece, structure is not the enemy of unbridled expression, the trauma of Zoom, the difference between misogyny and sexism, is th…
Jessica Stanley
Sep 6
Very Quiet Foreign Girls, binge eating, the pain of revision, older Millennials owe younger ones an apology (and Lorrie Moore goes IN). Lastly: collaps…
Jessica Stanley
Jul 23 1
Everything you'd expect from a READ.LOOK.THINK. inc. Alan Hollinghurst's new Instagram AND how your donation can directly help black people in the UK a…
Jessica Stanley
Jun 10
Writing before you’re ready can cause damage, Simone de Beauvoir was ‘a clock in a refrigerator,’ emergency brownies, bootlicking, "I’ll take it, if yo…
Jessica Stanley
May 3
Freedom to be absorbed, our challenge in a painting, the world on pause, just keep moving, thrilling truths, a perfect French house.
Jessica Stanley
Apr 5
Shame, a G-chat affair, “you’re having the wrong feelings,” the home of the last Mitford, Himpathy, cabbage, and ill-advised parenting tips from me whi…
Jessica Stanley
Mar 18
Primo, 100% infallible novels to lose yourself in during scary times and feel gripped, warm, safe, emotional, human and alive.
Jessica Stanley
Mar 12
"... I’ve always been asking the world, 'See me, see me, please.' And now I’m, like, 'Don’t see me!'" PLUS: The problem for realist novelists, a cookbo…
Jessica Stanley
Feb 24
A piece that will give you back a sense of hope. Celia Paul. Parent detective work. Risk assessments. Instant Pot yay/nay? Sleepovers. “I’ll be your fa…
Jessica Stanley
Feb 1
Vivian Leopold James, a prayer for debut authors, some reading reccs, two potters on 19th Century farm in Paris and sad, hurting people.
Jessica Stanley
Dec 6, 2019
Helen Garner does the housework, coquetamine, after publication comes depression, "Instagram mama" scandals, disaster collectivism.
Jessica Stanley
Nov 19, 2019
Tits from the past, writing about people who don't look like you, fungal acne, our broken sense of time.
Jessica Stanley
Nov 1, 2019
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