hello beautiful angels of the Hot Literati Universe. I hope that you are happy and also having a nice time. I'm drinking my first cup of coffee. It is 9:30. I went to the gym and ran three miles. A familiar face came up to me at the gym and told me that I'd gained weight so he didn't recognize me. He was one of the old(er) people I know just from walking around and being chatty. A year ago, hearing that would have devastated me, but I feel really happy with where I'm at and m

Spring Cleaning! shop my closet here -- all items are available until 2pm ET Thursday! And then I will be travelling and won't be able 2 ship <3 I’ve had this feeling for a while like I want to crawl out of my own skin. Like there is a me inside of me that I don’t understand and haven’t met yet. I really like making music because it’s like a piece of art that you can crawl into and live inside of. One that can make you feel a certain way. Brian Nuckols said on his podcast t

hello beautiful people of the Hot Literati Universe. For those of you that don't already know this, I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. Which I was also recently told is the birthplace of Mr. Beast. I come home often, because the people are kind and humble and the sky feels so big in Kansas. I think of myself as a sort of nomad these days, wandering around a lot, a little lost but mostly happy. Wichita has changed a lot since I was a little girl, in really beautiful way

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

hello cuties angels and lovers I spent most of today flyering for Hot Literati. It's more fun and potentially more effective than paying meta to show Hot Literati to people who it thinks might like it. I printed out a bunch of these flyers at UPS before walking to the lovely people of Laams to borrow some scissors. I went to Wolfnights, to order my hyperfixation wrap before going to my favorite social club for a glass of water. I sat down and started chatting with one of my f

Or how to become a better you Hailo is a bit of a character to me, she is someone who I become when life gets hard or when I need to do something brave. As ridiculous as it is, I think alter ego or persona building is extremely effective, and more importantly fun . My Princeton boyfriend began calling me hailo during our relationship. The name took other shapes like “swailo.” I began using hailo as an online name early on TikTok, then again when I became a discord moderator a

I get certain phrases stuck in my head sometimes, and this one about nicolas cage has been there for years. I used it as an instagram caption a year or two ago and eventually deleted every photo before deleting my entire account for a month. Most decisions like this, I make out of curiosity, not fear, or shame. I think joy and curiosity are good places to root anything and most of the time, even though not all, you can decide how you react to and feel about things. I let myse

summary Comedy: American Style is a tragedy. The title is the first irony. Fauset's 1933 novel follows Olivia Cary, a mother so consumed by the desire to pass as white that she destroys everyone around her — her daughter's future, her son's sense of worth, her family's coherence. Fauset was literary editor of The Crisis under W.E.B. Du Bois, the architect of the Harlem Renaissance's literary infrastructure, the editor who first published Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,