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You asked, I listened. A majority of you wanted shorter, more frequent posts so here I am. My sympathies to at least one of you, who’d hoped to limit their screen time upon finishing Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, I’ll try to make it worth your while. in this issuei. claire’s kneeii. things i ateiii. a tale of springtimeoff newsletter1. on Juliet Berto’s debut Neige, a night-life infused portrait of resistance on the margins 2.

We were psyched to talk to one of our favorite artists, Judy Kuhn, about her performance in the Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein musical “Unknown Soldier” at Arena Stage, and about some of her earlier turns — you probably remember her as the mother in “Fun Home,” Fosca in the 2013 revival of “Passion,” Cosette then Fantine in different productions of “Les Misérables,” Florence in “Chess.” The list is long and impressive.

Welcome to my first proper newsletter, and thank you for subscribing! In my launch post, I teased a celebrity connection - how do you connect Kimberly Noel Kardashian and Elvis Aaron Presley? The Queen of Self-Promotion wasn’t even born when the King met his maker! But this is La La Land, Hollywood, Tinseltown, the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, the other half and how they live. And it’s so insanely connected, it makes Ireland look like a nation of strangers.

By Deb Aoki On the March 25, 2002 episode of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio podcast, I was invited to chat a bit about food and cooking manga! You can listen to the episode here: As part of this chat, I pulled together a list of some of my favorite food and cooking manga, and gathered some background info about some of the early examples of this delicious manga genre that I thought would be fun to share with Mangasplaining Extra readers!

"Trans" is 99.9% bullshit, but at least there are a few, one in a thousand, who have Gender Identity Disorder. This is a real calculation, not round number hyperbole. I don't count DSM 5 "gender dysphoria" because that accepts self-reports, and "trans" is a fad, a cult. On the other hand, there is zero psychiatric basis for "nonbinary." It is 100% fake. Nobody should hire either, but with the "trans" there remains a 0.

Mary and I were cross-country skiing the rolling hills of a favorite Yellowstone valley, when we came panting to a hilltop and saw in the distance this magnificent bachelor herd of elk. They must have heard our incessant chatter before they saw us, because they were leaving, following one another through belly-deep snow. Fascinated by the thicket of antlers this photo captured, I was inspired to learn more about elk and their antlers.

Hi! You’ve found your way to “Yes, I Am A Hungry Woman” and I am excited to meet you. Have you subscribed? Lest you think I’m bragging, this is just how things go in Coastal Virginia. We are not a beach-in-the-summer community as much as we are a beach-in-the-shoulder-season community. Not for any persnickety reason like, I don’t know, a hatred of tourists (although I dare you to catch me on the Boardwalk anytime between early May and September - you won’t); rather, we just know that August on the sand is remarkably akin to camping on the edge of a molten lava field.

Welcome to the very first installment of Complete Works, a newsletter where writers share the invisible parts of their work! You’ll be hearing from a lot of people who are not me over the coming months, but to inaugurate the newsletter, I thought I’d start with something from my own work. My forthcoming book The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act spans a century on two continents and has dozens of characters.

👋 Hi! I’m Julie Zhuo. I help companies scale and build people-centric products informed by data. I’m the author of a popular management book. I used to lead design for the Facebook app. The Looking Glass is my once-a-month-ish musings on products, teams, and our journey as builders. Once upon a time, I received an important email in my inbox that alerted me to some distressing news. Every six months, our company ran a wide-scale anonymous satisfaction survey that pretty much every single employee answered.