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The Full Meal Deal • The Shirley Partridge and Carol Brady of newsletters is staring our control issues in the face, channeling our inner auntie, and washing it all down with a big glass of, uh, water.
The Full Meal Deal
The Shirley Partridge and Carol Brady of newsletters is staring our control issues in the face, channeling our inner auntie, and washing it all down with a big glass of, uh, water.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:07 AM
The Full Meal Deal • The Shirley Partridge and Carol Brady of newsletters is staring our control issues in the face, channeling our inner auntie, and washing it all down with a big glass of, uh, water.
Not On Our Watch • The Wayne Gretzky and Wayne Gretzky of newsletters—we only know one hockey player—is firing up the ice with a Hollywood tragedy, proteinmaxxing 2.0, and a heavy TV slate
Not On Our Watch
The Wayne Gretzky and Wayne Gretzky of newsletters—we only know one hockey player—is firing up the ice with a Hollywood tragedy, proteinmaxxing 2.0, and a heavy TV slate
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January 15, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Not On Our Watch • The Wayne Gretzky and Wayne Gretzky of newsletters—we only know one hockey player—is firing up the ice with a Hollywood tragedy, proteinmaxxing 2.0, and a heavy TV slate
Exile on Main Street • The Lizzie McGuire and Kelsey Peters of newsletters is back with catty mamas, rent-a-mamas, one wild-eyed MAGA mama, and a new theme song.
Exile on Main Street
The Lizzie McGuire and Kelsey Peters of newsletters is back with catty mamas, rent-a-mamas, one wild-eyed MAGA mama, and a new theme song.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Exile on Main Street • The Lizzie McGuire and Kelsey Peters of newsletters is back with catty mamas, rent-a-mamas, one wild-eyed MAGA mama, and a new theme song.
So...What Have You Learned? PART DEUX • The bathrobe and the scented candle of newsletters offers you a break from printing return labels with our (last) end-of-year wrap up. No really, this is it.
So...What Have You Learned? PART DEUX
The bathrobe and the scented candle of newsletters offers you a break from printing return labels with our (last) end-of-year wrap up. No really, this is it.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
So...What Have You Learned? PART DEUX • The bathrobe and the scented candle of newsletters offers you a break from printing return labels with our (last) end-of-year wrap up. No really, this is it.
So…What Have You Learned? PART I • The James Caan and Bob Newhart of newsletters is playing it back and taking names.
So…What Have You Learned? PART I
The James Caan and Bob Newhart of newsletters is playing it back and taking names.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So…What Have You Learned? PART I • The James Caan and Bob Newhart of newsletters is playing it back and taking names.
The House That Nikki Built • The Marie Curie and Marie Antoinette of newsletters is on the mic with Marie Claire's Nikki Ogunnaike—an EIC who evolves like it's her job. (It is.)
The House That Nikki Built
The Marie Curie and Marie Antoinette of newsletters is on the mic with Marie Claire's Nikki Ogunnaike—an EIC who evolves like it's her job. (It is.)
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December 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The House That Nikki Built • The Marie Curie and Marie Antoinette of newsletters is on the mic with Marie Claire's Nikki Ogunnaike—an EIC who evolves like it's her job. (It is.)
A Saga in 5,600 Parts • The ZZ Top and ZZ plant of newsletters is surveying the splitscape and posing for a nude double portrait that will appear in next month’s Vanity Fair!
A Saga in 5,600 Parts
The ZZ Top and ZZ plant of newsletters is surveying the splitscape and posing for a nude double portrait that will appear in next month’s Vanity Fair!
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December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A Saga in 5,600 Parts • The ZZ Top and ZZ plant of newsletters is surveying the splitscape and posing for a nude double portrait that will appear in next month’s Vanity Fair!
It's an American… Something! • The apple pie and baseball of newsletters is close-reading a comeback, popping another lorazepam, and channeling our inner Brit.
It's an American… Something!
The apple pie and baseball of newsletters is close-reading a comeback, popping another lorazepam, and channeling our inner Brit.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's an American… Something! • The apple pie and baseball of newsletters is close-reading a comeback, popping another lorazepam, and channeling our inner Brit.
Desire Is a Noun and a Verb • The Siskel and Ebert of newsletters give two thumbs up to the magazine-aissance, sandwich-gen straight talk, and our surrogate southern aunt.
Desire Is a Noun and a Verb
The Siskel and Ebert of newsletters give two thumbs up to the magazine-aissance, sandwich-gen straight talk, and our surrogate southern aunt.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Desire Is a Noun and a Verb • The Siskel and Ebert of newsletters give two thumbs up to the magazine-aissance, sandwich-gen straight talk, and our surrogate southern aunt.
Midnight Omelet Party for 30 • The Grubhub and DoorDash of newsletters (sorry, Martha) is binging on divorce divas, nanny contretemps, "sacrificial" motherhood, and one epic meditation on celebrity death
Midnight Omelet Party for 30
The Grubhub and DoorDash of newsletters (sorry, Martha) is binging on divorce divas, nanny contretemps, "sacrificial" motherhood, and one epic meditation on celebrity death
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Midnight Omelet Party for 30 • The Grubhub and DoorDash of newsletters (sorry, Martha) is binging on divorce divas, nanny contretemps, "sacrificial" motherhood, and one epic meditation on celebrity death
The Beard Issue • The Mutton Chops and Van Dyke of newsletters strokes the ole goatee with Beard author Kelly Foster Lundquist. Plus: These reads are on fire.
The Beard Issue
The Mutton Chops and Van Dyke of newsletters strokes the ole goatee with Beard author Kelly Foster Lundquist. Plus: These reads are on fire.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Beard Issue • The Mutton Chops and Van Dyke of newsletters strokes the ole goatee with Beard author Kelly Foster Lundquist. Plus: These reads are on fire.
All Dressed Up for Our Werewolf Bat Mitzvah • The Maleficent and Grand High Witch of newsletters is managing our schadenfreude for the ’90s, reveling in art-biz scandal, and craving testosterone. Plus: Let’s go to the movies!
All Dressed Up for Our Werewolf Bat Mitzvah
The Maleficent and Grand High Witch of newsletters is managing our schadenfreude for the ’90s, reveling in art-biz scandal, and craving testosterone. Plus: Let’s go to the movies!
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
All Dressed Up for Our Werewolf Bat Mitzvah • The Maleficent and Grand High Witch of newsletters is managing our schadenfreude for the ’90s, reveling in art-biz scandal, and craving testosterone. Plus: Let’s go to the movies!
Sarah Ball's Big Editor Energy • The Terry Gross and Diane Rehm of newsletters is back on the mic with WSJ's old-soul EIC.
Sarah Ball's Big Editor Energy
The Terry Gross and Diane Rehm of newsletters is back on the mic with WSJ's old-soul EIC.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sarah Ball's Big Editor Energy • The Terry Gross and Diane Rehm of newsletters is back on the mic with WSJ's old-soul EIC.
Songs About Jane • The Eyre and Austen of newsletters is celebrating an It Girl with author Marisa Meltzer. Also: A Tashjian excluuuuusive! Plus: A Yalie on Yalies!
Songs About Jane
The Eyre and Austen of newsletters is celebrating an It Girl with author Marisa Meltzer. Also: A Tashjian excluuuuusive! Plus: A Yalie on Yalies!
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November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Songs About Jane • The Eyre and Austen of newsletters is celebrating an It Girl with author Marisa Meltzer. Also: A Tashjian excluuuuusive! Plus: A Yalie on Yalies!
We’ll Have Our Cake (Please?) • The Starlet O’Hara and Mrs. Wiggins of newsletters is toasting a big one while contemplating prison vacations, banana hammocks, Malala as “sex bomb,” and Ezra’s transgression.
We’ll Have Our Cake (Please?)
The Starlet O’Hara and Mrs. Wiggins of newsletters is toasting a big one while contemplating prison vacations, banana hammocks, Malala as “sex bomb,” and Ezra’s transgression.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We’ll Have Our Cake (Please?) • The Starlet O’Hara and Mrs. Wiggins of newsletters is toasting a big one while contemplating prison vacations, banana hammocks, Malala as “sex bomb,” and Ezra’s transgression.
Double Your Pleasure • The Paris and Nicky of newsletters is rethinking true crime, searching the heavens for career wisdom, and removing all specific references to our children in this newsletter.
Double Your Pleasure
The Paris and Nicky of newsletters is rethinking true crime, searching the heavens for career wisdom, and removing all specific references to our children in this newsletter.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Double Your Pleasure • The Paris and Nicky of newsletters is rethinking true crime, searching the heavens for career wisdom, and removing all specific references to our children in this newsletter.
Cool Your Slice • The Margot Tenenbaum and April Ludgate of newsletters is affecting disinterest—are you convinced?—about the Deep South, Lizzo 2.0, and facelift hysteria.
Cool Your Slice
The Margot Tenenbaum and April Ludgate of newsletters is affecting disinterest—are you convinced?—about the Deep South, Lizzo 2.0, and facelift hysteria.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Cool Your Slice • The Margot Tenenbaum and April Ludgate of newsletters is affecting disinterest—are you convinced?—about the Deep South, Lizzo 2.0, and facelift hysteria.
Gold Digger: Is that a union job? • The Walter Sobchak and Jesus Quintana of newsletters rolls deep on mega publishing news, estranged scions, inexplicable marriages, and *real* friends—that’s YOU.
Gold Digger: Is that a union job?
The Walter Sobchak and Jesus Quintana of newsletters rolls deep on mega publishing news, estranged scions, inexplicable marriages, and *real* friends—that’s YOU.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gold Digger: Is that a union job? • The Walter Sobchak and Jesus Quintana of newsletters rolls deep on mega publishing news, estranged scions, inexplicable marriages, and *real* friends—that’s YOU.
Our Friend Laurie's Colon • The lunch lady and the school bus driver of newsletters is dusting off our dormant gray matter with a story we’ve been waiting six months to read.
Our Friend Laurie's Colon
The lunch lady and the school bus driver of newsletters is dusting off our dormant gray matter with a story we’ve been waiting six months to read.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our Friend Laurie's Colon • The lunch lady and the school bus driver of newsletters is dusting off our dormant gray matter with a story we’ve been waiting six months to read.
Towanda! • The Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison of newsletters is frying up September issues, Zuckerberg drama, and celebrity therapists.
Towanda!
The Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison of newsletters is frying up September issues, Zuckerberg drama, and celebrity therapists.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Towanda! • The Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison of newsletters is frying up September issues, Zuckerberg drama, and celebrity therapists.
The Hunt for Pink September • The Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow—we can’t believe it either—of newsletters is starting a light cult (again), channeling Sleeping Beauty, and fueling up on Jen-N-Out.
The Hunt for Pink September
The Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow—we can’t believe it either—of newsletters is starting a light cult (again), channeling Sleeping Beauty, and fueling up on Jen-N-Out.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Hunt for Pink September • The Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow—we can’t believe it either—of newsletters is starting a light cult (again), channeling Sleeping Beauty, and fueling up on Jen-N-Out.
Gentlemen Prefer Spreaders • The Delilah and Dr. Laura of newsletters is FAFO-parenting, faking our zillions, and quiet quitting our mankeeping gigs
Gentlemen Prefer Spreaders
The Delilah and Dr. Laura of newsletters is FAFO-parenting, faking our zillions, and quiet quitting our mankeeping gigs
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Gentlemen Prefer Spreaders • The Delilah and Dr. Laura of newsletters is FAFO-parenting, faking our zillions, and quiet quitting our mankeeping gigs
Beach Blanket Mahjong, Anyone? • The Sandra Dee and Annette Funicello of newsletters is stand-up paddleboarding through the wilds of modern dating, celebrity, philosophy, and medicine. Yep, the doctors are in.
Beach Blanket Mahjong, Anyone?
The Sandra Dee and Annette Funicello of newsletters is stand-up paddleboarding through the wilds of modern dating, celebrity, philosophy, and medicine. Yep, the doctors are in.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Beach Blanket Mahjong, Anyone? • The Sandra Dee and Annette Funicello of newsletters is stand-up paddleboarding through the wilds of modern dating, celebrity, philosophy, and medicine. Yep, the doctors are in.
That Swamp Princess Lifestyle • The Leslie Bibb and Kate Bohr of newsletters is revenge-sharpening our bob (and our nails) and taking big swings at C-sections, lit foursomes, and 💤💤💤.
That Swamp Princess Lifestyle
The Leslie Bibb and Kate Bohr of newsletters is revenge-sharpening our bob (and our nails) and taking big swings at C-sections, lit foursomes, and 💤💤💤.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That Swamp Princess Lifestyle • The Leslie Bibb and Kate Bohr of newsletters is revenge-sharpening our bob (and our nails) and taking big swings at C-sections, lit foursomes, and 💤💤💤.
DRUMROLL, PLEASE: IT’S THE SPREAD 100 • The Coen Sisters and the Safdie Sisters of newsletters is counting down to Chinatown (except not actually *Chinatown*). Plus: Tyra Banks’s Karen cut, and the new Virginia Woolfian dream.
DRUMROLL, PLEASE: IT’S THE SPREAD 100
The Coen Sisters and the Safdie Sisters of newsletters is counting down to Chinatown (except not actually *Chinatown*). Plus: Tyra Banks’s Karen cut, and the new Virginia Woolfian dream.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
DRUMROLL, PLEASE: IT’S THE SPREAD 100 • The Coen Sisters and the Safdie Sisters of newsletters is counting down to Chinatown (except not actually *Chinatown*). Plus: Tyra Banks’s Karen cut, and the new Virginia Woolfian dream.