Personal essays from a business reporter turned corporate tech wonk. I call out the lies we've been sold, starting with more is better, and do the math on what it really costs us. We laugh at my habits; you bring yours.
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Where do we throw our time & money when life stops making sense? That's Retail Therapy — personal essays by a former business reporter (yes, the WSJ kind) now surviving corporate tech by growing plants in the bathtub and doing yoga in the driveway.
Novelist and essayist whose stories have appeared in NYT, the Guardian, WaPo, Harper's, etc. Boston-grown, Texas-based, always packing or unpacking.
Chris Stanton has written humor for some of the world’s biggest brands. Readers have called his essays about culture and human nature “hilarious,” “insightful,” and “brilliant.”
Creator and founding editor of Geezer, the only print magazine just for Gen X.
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my writing's been described as "like if Hemingway got drunk in a Claire’s." 🚬 Subscribe to BEST PARTY, WORST HOUSE for humorous essays every Monday. Stuff in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Vulture. Author of three humor books and counting.
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