
Midlife longing meets algorithmic reality, for readers who prefer their feelings theory-adjacent.
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Desire critique can’t reach
When I was in college, I had ambiguously consensual, intoxicated sex with strangers on a semi-regular basis, and not a single one of them attempted to choke me. Men have put their hands gesturally around my neck...
This piece is in conversation with an earlier essay on Ezra Klein’s method. You can read it here.
I’ve been reading and recommending Pema Chodron for years. When Things Fall Apart helped me survive periods of grief I didn’t know how to met...
Marlene Dumas, The Fog Of War, 2006
The contemporary self is a patient, a biographer, a forensic investigator, and the middle manager of their own emotional department. We don’t just have feelings anymore. We process them, trace them, opti...
DTF St. Louis registers a certain kind of social accuracy that’s difficult to tolerate after a certain point, particularly if you’re over forty, recently divorced, intermittently on dating apps, and prone to mistaking self-awareness for imm...
Alice Tippet, Grove, 2022, oil on canvas, 16 x 13 inches
After my marriage ended a couple years ago, I became briefly unhinged. I fell in love with a married sex addict. We sent each other poems before work and texted late into the night....
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Author & illustrator of COMMUTE and WHAT’S WRONG. Doctoral student. I write about intimacy, desire, and modern estrangement. Lover of books and fatal mistakes.
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