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Or, How to Clean Up Your Life Every since I was a little girl, I have been a hoarder of memories. I've always treated my life like a really good meal that you want to savor. Saving the best part for last and being upset when it's all gone. Actually, always isn't a fair word. It's beautiful, but it's never true. Last Friday, I had the honor of giving a talk at Sarah Lawrence. We sat in the Graduate building as I read them a letter a boy wrote to me at seventeen that I read whe

And some thoughts on the World Wide Web Today I received my first real literary rejection, which was an email that said "I'll pass on this." I've had a very unconventional, internet forward career as a writer so far, but I'm currently shopping around a memoir titled The American Princess Diet , about some very particular instances in my life through the lens of food, media, sex, and God. I never expected to make any money from writing, which is one of the ways I stumbled into

What to do When it Won't Stop Snowing Hello hello. It is the afternoon of New York's second big snow storm this year. What I did not stock up in in groceries, I have happily countered with books. This is the sort of weather that makes you grateful for remote work, even if it is a little lonely. The sort of weather that makes a hot cup of coffee especially delightful and makes peeking outside an act of awe. I'm sort of like a child in the sense that I love being outside and I

Get out of your head to be Hotter Good morning cuties, angels, and lovers. I hope that you all had a wonderful valentines day! I myself had a great one, I feel happy, well-fed, and relaxed. There's something in the "How to be Hotter Guide" that I've been thinking about a lot about self-censoring. There's a part of your brain that will self-monitor you and can lead to overthinking instead of just being present and acting. I think practicing the art of presence and embodiment i

hello beautiful people of Hot Literati. Last summer, or maybe the summer before, a friend of mine asked how I can "feel hot," and make that a central part of Hot Literati's brand. It's funny because even after winning a big beauty pageant at seventeen, I never really felt pretty. It's a big through-line in my life that I'm processing in the book I'm writing right now, but I've taken a lot of steps to define what "Hot" is in the Hot Literati Universe and in my own mind over th

Melancholia and Isherwood Musings New Years Eve Party I, Francis Chapin, American, 1899-1965, via Art Institute of Chicago Website I first read Goodbye to Berlin last summer, months after my infatuation with the Kander and Ebb musical adaptation Cabaret began. I read the book during the summer where it rained nearly constantly, following the heatwave the year prior where London was so scorching the city almost seemed to be burning for its sins. That summer I’d take long walks

2026: What do I want to work on? Work out? Work towards? Matter of fact, why do I ask myself these questions every year? I guess I want to understand how to spend my energy so I can move in a direction aligned with my higher self. Energy is precious. It’s a substance that cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred – that’s why they say energy is contagious. I like your energy! I like hers too. Energy is quantifiable: I have a lot of energy! I have no energy at all. But

Weird Girls have Weird Hobbies For one of my forty books of 2025, I read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. It was a bit heady and dense at some points, but full of interesting studies around the human brain and cognition. Toward the end, he explores something called a U-index that was a measure of unhappiness in people. film fun mag, unknown artist, via art institute of chicago In that section, he made a distinction between passive and active participation in someth

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the sacred heart represents Jesus Christs' divine love for humanity Today, after going to the cobbler, I stopped in to see my New York grandpa. We always talk about the weather, food, and our love lives. He knew that my most recent relationship wouldn't work out and we meditated on how "people aren't the same anymore, men don't come up to women and say 'hello, I think you're beautiful, i'd like to take you on a date' and women get scared when they do" and when you talk to som

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