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Beating the Spotify Algorithm
5.5 Albums that changed my life This past Sunday, I wrote about how I was sick of my Spotify AI DJ. It gives me this feeling that I’m...
Ananya
Jul 25, 2024


God is change and so must we
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Full Moon Edition Hello hello hellooo!! This has been a wacky week both online and offline. I got the...
Ananya
Jul 21, 2024


I think I think about myself too much
Good evening, it’s 10 p.m. in New York and I am drinking Concoction Juice (a non-algorithm-based rec I may share soon) and thinking about...
Ananya
Jul 17, 2024


Hot Literati has a new Babysitter
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Dinner with Ex, Aging, and Free Shots Happy Sunday. I bought paper towels from one grocery store and left...
HOT LITERATI
Jul 14, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer Syllabus
The following are books and readings that I think really capture and tackle and confront some of the social, philosophical, and societal...
Hailo
Jul 13, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 3
The answer is bad systems Last week I hopped on a 6 a.m. flight and hauled two suitcases with my life belongings across the country,...
Ananya
Jul 11, 2024


The Romance of The West: A Cowgirl Manifesto
They didn’t know what to call us before. Descendants of Artemis; some kind of moon fable brought to life with our nimble hands and wild...
Alexandra Rae
Jul 8, 2024


Hungover Musings, Summer Flings
26. Little Deaths/Delights For better or worse, or better and worse, life always feels like some sort of dream to me. This comes up a lot...
Hailo
Jul 7, 2024


S.1 Ep 6. The (Black, lesbian) woman's problem
I want to know what Hella’s room looks like. Is it small and caving like Giovanni’s? Forgettable and impersonal like David’s? I have a...
Victoria
Jul 5, 2024


July '24 Deaths & Delights
DEATHS noisy cars cover charges curly hair + humidity self-pity credit scores people with their phones out at concerts men who use double...
Alice
Jul 4, 2024


Hot75: (re)Cognition Summer Edition
Everything about life is sticky and tactile. Anything you brush against even slightly has a high chance of clinging to you. Sometimes we...
nwakaego
Jul 3, 2024


(re)COGNITION SUMMER: … Into the Anaxagoric Emerald
by Anderson I remember my future now. I am Caribbean royalty and all the big city is my proxy throne. I wear the waves on my back like a...
Anderson
Jul 2, 2024


The World has its own Music
and God, his own schedule Music has sounded so wonderful lately, because I have been listening to less. I've been watching the sunset in...
Hailo
Jul 1, 2024


I used to be scared of my own reflection
Until Hot Literati held the mirror for me The semester was coming to an end when I interviewed to be an intern at Hot Literati. I called...
Matias
Jun 30, 2024


rip grimes, you would've loved grimes
My brilliant, tik-tok literate 14 year old sister had to explain this phrase to me. Every person under 25 riding in my minivan for the...
Masha
Jun 27, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 2
Defanging Big Tech’s Frankenstein There’s a recurring ad that I’ve been getting since I graduated high school. It first showed up on...
Ananya
Jun 26, 2024


Can't Stop the Feelin'
“The body is hands and eyes”- an impermanent introduction to an intern H-A-L-E-Y: happy, animal lover, leggings wearer, egg lover, yellow...
Haley
Jun 25, 2024


Hello, Hailo
How I found belonging in Hot Literati And when I say “Hailo”, I don’t just mean Hailo herself (although, yes…hello to the curly hair and...
Alexandra Rae
Jun 24, 2024


The People According to Hot Literati #1
We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.
HOT LITERATI
Jun 21, 2024


Rules for (re)Cognition Summer
Writing this on two hours of sleep, a biscoff cookie, and an 8 pm cup of coffee, but I know you all love an arbitrary seasonal set of...
Hailo
Jun 21, 2024
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