What To Read If
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Come for the book recs, essays, nosy questions, awkward confessions. Stay for the conversation. Author of Casualties, A Novel (Berkley), student of Italian, & co-parent to two dogs who are oblivious to their good fortune.
author of forthcoming MIDLIFE PLOT TWIST (sept '26), a book about how to have a good midlife crisis. lover of beautiful garbage: trashy paperbacks/vintage gossip/haunted lockets/mementos from your nervous breakdown
Writer for Club Sportico, Researcher for This Day
Vermonter, astrologer, raptor enthusiast, Gemini, dog whisperer, author of the memoir “Moving to My Dog’s Hometown”
✍\ud83c\udffbwriter-editor-tutor-coach \ud83d\udcdabestselling anthology LIVING, TOGETHER out now from Beacon Press
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