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Real Feel
A semi-regular dispatch about semi-irregular emotions.
By Claire Landsbaum
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rot season
In the garden, a rotting pumpkin collided with a massive piece of vertical plywood: thunk. It fell to the ground and the bystanders descended, hacking it apart with hammers and a hoe. Then, the whole mess was piled into a 5-foot-tall compost tote. The sheer volume of pumpkin guts…
Claire Landsbaum
Nov 23, 2022
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summer drip
Hi, friends. It’s been a while! I’ve been settling into my new role as deputy features editor at Insider, where we’ve published such sizzling reads as…
Claire Landsbaum
Jul 18, 2022
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Programming note
I started this newsletter in 2015 because I was young and impressionable and bought into the idea that anyone who wanted to be a successful writer…
Claire Landsbaum
Feb 3, 2021
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Love Island
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, my life developed a rhythm: wake up, log on, spend 12 hours moving my eyeballs gradually closer and…
Claire Landsbaum
Nov 29, 2020
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Love Island
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Not okay
My boss, John Homans, died of cancer in July, two and a half weeks after telling me about his diagnosis. I am still not okay about it. At times I seem…
Claire Landsbaum
Sep 2, 2020
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Not okay
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Just to stay alive
The other night I sat up sewing masks. This is something I’ve been doing since the start of the pandemic—my grandma taught me to sew at 10, and I…
Claire Landsbaum
Jul 3, 2020
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Grapefruit
I will put it to you as a statement of fact: white people eat grapefruit all wrong. I was alerted to this by my friend Delia Cai, who included in her…
Claire Landsbaum
May 15, 2020
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Presumed positive
I refused to wear uncomfortable underwear when I had coronavirus. This is probably TMI for at least 86% of the people who subscribe to this…
Claire Landsbaum
Apr 8, 2020
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