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diet coke lady
one haircut could change your life
Aug 16
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Claire Landsbaum
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June 2023
planting
happy dirt girl summer
Jun 30
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Claire Landsbaum
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November 2022
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…
Nov 23, 2022
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Claire Landsbaum
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July 2022
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…
Jul 18, 2022
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Claire Landsbaum
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February 2021
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…
Feb 3, 2021
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Claire Landsbaum
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November 2020
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…
Nov 29, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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September 2020
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…
Sep 2, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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July 2020
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…
Jul 3, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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May 2020
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…
May 15, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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April 2020
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…
Apr 8, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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March 2020
Teen witch
“Devil’s Worst Nightmare” by Fjøra has been stuck in my head for weeks now. It’s the song that plays in the background when Sabrina Spellman struts into…
Mar 1, 2020
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Claire Landsbaum
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December 2019
She got scammed
My scammer texted me, “Good morning.” It was a Friday, and I was home waiting for the movers to pick up the couch I’d sold on Craigslist. Except, of…
Dec 15, 2019
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Claire Landsbaum
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