hello cuties, angels, and lovers. If you know me, then you know that I strongly believe that life is about walking around and saying hello to a lot of people. That being said, I am going to resume telling you about some of the places I went and the people I saw! Starting with Jean's. Jean's is an iteration of the "club-straunt." Classier than Tao, it's a restaurant on top with a club in the basement. I'd been hearing about Jean's for years, ever since Grub Street did a fun Ti

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

WEEKEND RECAP + HOT LITERATI GIFT GUIDE Good morning. I'm always really intrigued by my own mood in the morning. I do a lot of work on...

Hello wonderful people. I am in the back of an airport taxi on the way back to Manhattan from the Newark airport. I spent the last three...

How to lovergirl fall when your heart is broken and you are still learning to forgive and you feel you don’t own your sexuality? Can you...

And a Salmon Recipe Hello hello hello hello. I’m writing from a cafe in the West Village. NYU students are milling around with excitement...

Absolute erotica: a world made entirely of red. Doubled, duplicated, doppelegänger’d. I’d make a manifesto for crimson but Rothko already di

Know your stuff. All light or all dark, or light and dark of the same one spirit. Drink at least one glass of prosecco or one pint of...

This particular Friday night was born on Hailo’s roof with a bottle of sparkling and a bottle of red. I popped the bubbly open, because...

by Hot Literati & Princess Babygirl HAILEY COGNETTI It's July first when i am writing this, but it already feels like August. Where has...

But first, a quick note from Hailo: We're doing a ~drop~ but I'd rather call it a ~debut~. A little softer, right? Rolls off the tongue....

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...

I’m a baker now (manifesting)! I was going to post the recipe by itself, but I wanted to share the why as well. Since the why is a lot of...

by Vic Early Saturday afternoon my mom drove me to Penn Station on her way to run some errands. We went through Times Square and laughed...

One of my final projects for a course this semester was to throw a party for queers.

Dancing, loving, thinking

Anderson @ Goldbar closing and Fifi's Opening

I had the strangest evening last night. A friend who is a very talented filmmaker invited me to this party...

This week on Wayward Wonderland I reflect on the past five years (not including 2020 for obvious reasons) of pride parades in NYC.

A quick note from Hailo: I met two of the Hot Literati ‘24 writers at a show my mate put on for the debut of their EP. I was a little...