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The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie …
Laura Lippman
65
"I’m in the carpe-the-fucking-diem stage of my life."
Sari Botton
33
An excerpt from Abigail Thomas's new memoir, "Still Life at Eighty: the Next Interesting Thing"
Abigail Thomas
65
A dramatic exit from the toxic magazine world cast uncertainty on Kim France's future, but after launching her own website and podcast for women over…
Kim France
26
At 69, Eileen Vorbach Collins responds to an ageist tweet.
Eileen Vorbach Collins
36
"Writing renders our world and ourselves. It has saved me more than once." Sorayya Khan considers the creative practice that helps her make sense of…
Sorayya Khan
33
As Laurie Stone streams some talked-about shows on TV, she notices the women's movement has been cut out of the snapshots of our time, like tedious…
Laurie Stone
114
How outdated and sparse the information about it is...and that New York Times Magazine article. An open thread.
Sari Botton
235
Sara Eckel writes to the 25-year-old she once was, just starting out as a writer in New York City in the 90s.
Sara Eckel
26
At 52 I stopped being able to tolerate alcohol, so I gave it up. How has your relationship to alcohol and drinking changed as you've gotten older? An…
Sari Botton
316
In an excerpt of "I Thought You Loved Me," Mari Naomi's graphic Gen X memoir due out in May, they write about an ex-friend from their teens and 20s…
MariNaomi (they/them)
37
Richard Toon recalls his first taxi ride into Manhattan forty years ago, and a kind driver who had been around the block a few times.
Richard Toon
13
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