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Chicago, Illinois HEY LADIES!! I watched Sex and the City in the summer weeks between college and grad school, holed up in a tiny, campus-adjacent apartment surrounded by hundreds of…

Somewhere over the Atlantic Dear friends, It was anxiety. Now, despair. “My basic feeling is that of the world disappearing, that our lives are being filled with images of the…

Sacramento, California, indoors, hiding from hellish air quality due to the Camp Fire, dealing with my children’s first case of head lice “Most reckless things are beautiful in some way,…

Washington, D.C. Dear fellow strugglers, A wave of nostalgia hit me as I finished Book Six of My Struggle after midnight on a sweltering August night. While I had inhaled…

Bed-Stuy, New York Dear Friends, In Season 5, Episode 5, on the heels of her breakup with Aidan, and Big’s move to Napa Valley, Carrie publishes a collection of her…

“What was so dangerous about closeness?” (redux) The Old 77, New Orleans, LA and Echo Park, LA, CA All, Like Omari, I’m struggling (no pun indented) more than I expect/ed….

Portland, OR Dear all, Before I get to Hitler, I want to talk about feelings—my own, stirred by one Karl Ove Knausgaard. I wrote another letter before I wrote this…