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Books: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Penne Lynne - 0
The first time I experienced Lori Gottlieb’s book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, I read it in print. The second time, I listened...
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Books: Open by Rachel Krantz
Miriam Gold - 0
Rachel Krantz, whose author headshot makes her a dead ringer for my younger cousin Beth, is a Jewish woman writer in her thirties, as...
Health and Wellness
HIDDEN WORKOUTS…THEY DO EXIST!
To everyone that hears the word “workout” and is immediately hit with that pang of anxiety, dislike, or straight-up hatred, THIS IS FOR YOU!...
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Books: Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
Easy Beauty is a memoir of many things: Chloé Cooper Jones’s experience as an academic, a traveler, a mother, a partner, a tennis fan,...
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Books: Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide
Emma Dreams of Stars: Inside the Gourmet Guide is a full-color manga based on the true story of Parisian Emmanuelle “Emma” Maisonneuve—a foodie who...
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Books: You Can Have a Better Period by Le’Nise Brothers
You Can Have A Better Period: A Practical Guide to Calmer and Less Painful Periods, by Le’Nise Brothers, sounds like a comprehensive guide to...
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Books: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub
If a late-twenties Aileen Weintraub hadn’t quit her job at a Manhattan-based children’s publishing company back in the year 2000 to work...
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Books: Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
A poet by trade, Molly McCully Brown now turns her hand to memoir, using a series of essays to trace the year she spent...
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Books: Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
I fell in love with Patti Smith’s music when I was nineteen. Her most widely known song, “Because the Night" from her 1978 album...
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Essays
The Tree of Life
L. A. Hunt - 0
I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.
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Books: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. It is an emotional, informative, and humorous memoir about what it was like...
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Books: Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
Alex Birch - 0
Jen Winston’s debut essay collection, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, begins with a scene in which she is gazing at...