A personal essay newsletter by Aakriti Mehrotra reflecting on friendship, long-distance relationships, empathy for strangers, and memories of sport and youth. Each issue is a reflective, anecdotal piece that mixes everyday observation with bits of cultural references.
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A weekly personal letter of lyrical, fragmentary prose drawing on the author's daily life, work at a bike shop, home, and the places she visits. Readers get observational, intimate essays plus occasional notes on readings and literary events.
Long-form second-person food essays about individual restaurants in Providence, Rhode Island, each opening with practical details like location, hours and visit date. The writing blends restaurant description with personal anecdotes about friends, writing groups and daily life.
A humor newsletter in which R. Eric Thomas riffs conversationally on everyday life, from seasonal sweater rituals to a chaotic flight and a struggle with the word semiquincentennial. Readers get witty, digressive personal essays built on pop-culture references and absurd comic imagery.
David Roberts writes weekly personal essays about wealth, status and family, drawing on his life as someone with generational money. The excerpts mix literary reflection (Mrs. Dalloway) with candid anecdotes about wealthy acquaintances and domestic friction, giving readers a self-aware look at privilege.
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