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...

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...

DEATHS noisy cars cover charges curly hair + humidity self-pity credit scores people with their phones out at concerts men who use double...

Everything about life is sticky and tactile. Anything you brush against even slightly has a high chance of clinging to you. Sometimes we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.

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...

How to stop being insecure, & other musings

Dripping sweat from scalp to white lace panty line, it’s barely June and I’m wondering who’s buying my dinner tonight. The summers of my...

Mr. Chalamet (yes, he's back...) was telling me about "Tinder in real life" the other day -- a video series in which one guest "swipes"...

Do me a favor. Next time you’re out running errands, existing in a liminal space, or in the coffee line, look around. Look with...

ALIVE GIRL DIARIES: WEEK 0 by Ananya For the modern literati; join me as I test out new strategies each week to reclaim my cognition and...

Hi Literatis. I hope you all have had a wonderful week and weekend. I have had what I like to call a "memory-dense" one. I started using...

Hi all <3 I'm writing to you from my neighborhood restaurant. I used to come in here a couple of times a week. They noticed when I...