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Couch trouble
It’s another mat leave toonsletter! How fun. But first: congratulations to friends of The Scumbler Jill Tyler and Jon Sybert, whose D.C. restaurant, Rye Bunny, was just named one of the New York Times’s 50 favorite restaurants of 2026! If y...
Postcard from leave: Gen Z loves babies?
The ultimate compliment.
Welcome back to “Postcards from Maternity Leave,” a series in which I send you postcards from maternity leave. A handwritten dispatch from the front lines awaits you below the paywall :)
How to dress like a novelist
This week’s guest post belongs to friend of The Scumbler Lily Meyer, who previously joined us to discuss The Devil Wears Prada 2, share her advice for writing a great sex scene, and recommend novels for the sweatiest days of summer. When sh...
First trimester diary
Pregnancy in review, part 1.
This essay is a time capsule: I wrote it at the end of my first trimester, in the winter of 2026, and squirreled it away to publish during mat leave. It documents what I was thinking, feeling, and eating during...
Ngozi Ukazu draws Frederick!
We’ve seen the vampire Frederick hanging out in a haunted house, playing pickleball and listening to Las Culturistas, and discovering an efficient way of getting to the store during a snowstorm. But we’ve never seen Frederick like THIS!
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Freelance journalist and author of The Scumbler, a weekly newsletter dedicated to movies, fashion, culture, and cartoons.
Emilia Petrarca is a native New Yorker covering fashion and culture. Before going freelance, she held the role of Senior Fashion Writer at NYMag's the Cut Her writing can now also be found in The New Yorker, NYTimes, WSJ, and more.
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