Archive - Real Feel

a Valentine's Day literary analysis

Feb 12 •

Claire Landsbaum

December 2023

bodies, bodies, bodies

our year of exhaustion

Dec 29, 2023 •

Claire Landsbaum

August 2023

one haircut could change your life

Aug 16, 2023 •

Claire Landsbaum

June 2023

happy dirt girl summer

Jun 30, 2023 •

Claire Landsbaum

November 2022

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

July 2022

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

November 2020

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

September 2020

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

May 2020

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

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 •

Claire Landsbaum

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