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The Digest: June 2025
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I found my favorite type of story villain
THE LOG: The overlap of SECRET LIVES OF MORMON WIVES, FLEABAG, and Facebook is good intentions in bad people.
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How do we write our family members?
HOW TO READ WELL 7.1 | Beneath the distinctive style, SWANN'S WAY may be a family saga.
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How to write a New York bucket list
In defense of the “West Village Girl”
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Lesson 7: A beginner's guide to Marcel Proust & SWANN'S WAY
Proust lived searching for his past. When you search for his past, you find drama in the gaps.
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May 2025

April 2025

6.4 Can you choose your own ending for Anna Karenina?
Tolstoy changed his mind. Should we? (Really, if you haven’t spoiled the novel for yourself, don’t read this.)
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Corporations make us sick, according to corporate TV studios
From Apple to Zaslav, this year’s water-cooler TV shows commiserate that corporate institutions are wearing us down.
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6.3 Is Tolstoy’s "Anna Karenina" sexist?
A tale of two Anns: ANNIE HALL + ANNA KARENINA. (Spoilers ahead for both.)
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The Digest: Happy fourth anniversary to this newsletter
I celebrated by giving my novel liposuction. (April 15, 2025)
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Welcome to self-taught, a syllabus project for a girl who loves to research
Here's where to get started if you want to read some of my work over the last 4 years
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