Deuxmoi is a celebrity and pop culture gossip newsletter, delivering weekly cheat sheets and subscriber live events. The excerpts are mostly navigation links and event promotion, so there is little substantive writing to judge from.
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Pop-culture writer Maureen Ryan shares personal essays on television, covering characters, TV history, and her Battlestar Galactica book in progress. The newsletter offers reflective, reported criticism and recovered past work from a long-time TV critic.
A music and pop culture newsletter from The Line of Best Fit, a volunteer-run independent publication. It offers essays on overlooked artists, music history, award coverage such as the Mercury Prize, and artist interviews.
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.
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