Jessica Stanley's READ.LOOK.THINK.
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A lot of stuff about the horror of writing, a solution for Twitter, parasocial relationships (love 'em!!!) -- also, sardines.
Jul 14Share
xxxJ, needing a new persona to be able to write, pushing your husband off a boat, young Zadie Smith home vid, chips and a dip, intuitive eating, suppor…
Jun 20Share
Years of service to reality. How does it feel to publish a book? Nancy Mitford's wank bank. Actually two mentions of wanking. Reverse Medusa. Star fish…
May 26Share
Double shame for women writers, regretful rejections, the end of Kimye, house prices, offline hitting like a drug -- and a music video?!?!
May 4Share
Helen Garner's scary edits, internet novels, toilet dignity, diet culture, Zaddy Fascism, a dream garden in Brixton, a lovely chatty pod.
Apr 11Share
Lunchbox moments, bad naked, middle class comrades, main character energy, grief is a change we didn't want.
Mar 18Share
Mature for your age, hatchet jobs, clumsy and eager, homes and trees and shade-loving plants, UGLY GENIUS, reality shifting, internet of beefs.
Feb 25Share
Two reasons for hope! A heart-shaped cake. Teenage girls, Rhodes must fall, Dreampolitik, the danger of Instagram therapy accounts. It's a Sin, obvious…
Feb 1Share
“Here, this is my theatre.” Motherly effort, winterising yourself, readers and writers kissing like two fish, Daddy Issues and traumatic narcissism, Si…
Jan 8Share
“Is it from your life? Did this really happen?” Trusted readers, dependence, afterwardsness and re-visioning, culinary anhedonia, artists' kitchens, ha…
Dec 8, 2020Share
Communion has occurred, plotblocking, Hermione Lee, elite panic, disaster nationalism, Reputation Rehab. "Use a little lip rouge, to begin with." And a…
Oct 27, 2020Share
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…
Sep 6, 2020Share
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