Don't Buy What I'm Selling
Lu Chekowsky, Open Secrets MagazineMusings on advertising, capitalism, humanity and the robots who know everything about you (from someone who used to live inside the machine).
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Emmy award winning advertising writer and former advertising creative director. Author of: "DON'T BUY WHAT I'M SELLING: ON BREAKING UP WITH ADVERTISING AND FINALLY LEARNING TO LOVE MY WHOLE, FAT SELF" (Little, Brown).
Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”
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