& a Job for Creatives that Pays $80-$110k/yr hello beautiful Hot Literatis around the world my first time really reading Woolf for our book club I'm shaking up the email schedule a bit. We will still do "Little Deaths/Delights" inside of the community on Monday's, but you'll only receive Hot Literati emails on Wednesdays and Fridays now. I'm on my third cup of coffee listening to Francesco de Masi. I wrote 600 words this morning and picked The Idiot back up last night. It's m

It's May. One of those balmy days, quite warm with raindrops speckled throughout the day. I'm walking down Orchard St, coming up from Grand and I see him, sitting outside. Erwin, with his strong, kind face, looking down at his phone. So I sneak up really quiet and drop into the chair in front of him. "Hello!" I say. He laughs. I laugh... "You know, I always remember you," he says, taking off his phone case to reveal a Hot Literati sticker. We grow up in a lot of places. If we

hello beautiful Hot Literatis! Happy Monday, I controversially love Mondays and early mornings. Maybe I enjoy beginnings. This morning, I wrote 1500 words on a draft of a second novel. I have a manuscript of a first sitting at home in Kansas that exactly one person has read. On Friday, I had lunch with one of my mentors, who encouraged me to treat writing like more of a job, sitting down at the same time every day before all of the other life stuff gets in your head, as oppos

Tonight I went to the box for the first time. The first time I heard about the box was from a classmate in my eating club back in 2022 after they attended a party there with a former mayor, lots of models, and other A-list sorts. That world felt so glamorous and aloof to me and a year later that same friend would bring me into their world here in New York and I would begin writing about clubbing online and begin accquiring an audience and something like momentum. An open bar

Little Deaths/Delights 94 Writing Week I'm crazy about writing, and I don't just mean the art form. I write by hand every single day. I have a very specific journaling structure that I do that includes the date, my "chief definite aim," my monthly goals, where I'm at in my cycle, my daily to do list, and a daily scripture. When I don't write this daily, I notice things get a bit more chaotic. Writing touches more parts of your brain than typing and forces you to really slow d

70 Hot Literatis exist here on Hot Literati dot com. join Hot Literati Today, I went to a co working space, since I spend most of my time working alone. I met someone for the second time from networking things and met this one really nice person who also lived In Germany for a bit. And then I started walking to get my Wolfnights wrap. I've been hit on three times today. I was hit on five times yesterday. That's how you know it's New York summer. You quite literally just have

You'd be sexier if you showed up Most people are actually very unreliable and inconsistent in today's world. This morning, I went all the way to Queens to try to attend an event, only to find out that the location had changed and it was only in person once a month and was online this week. Following the pandemic, we've shifted so much of our lives to remote work, which removes the B-level bonding of a real conversation. People's attention spans are much shorter, and people ca

Last night, I, hailo, went to Miu Miu on 57th st to celebrate Joey King's selections. I took the train uptown, reading an unpublished novel by a friend. I'm lucky to have the second copy. And then I got there and waitedin a brief line. I checked in, took a photo, and went upstairs where I put a Miu Miu coin Into a vending machine and received some stickers. I met a nice couple from New Jersey and saw a beautiful blue dress that reminded me of Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

Glow Up Week: Let Yourself Have Desires Welcome back to your weekly reset inside of Hot Literati <3 Glow Up Week One question I've asked myself obsessively over the past few years is "why am I who I am"? I find It's the swirly sort of question that can leave you looking at blank space for a bit. I've liked the idea of "glowing up" ever since I found a beauty blog at 12 years old and visited the same site every single day. Especially during the summer. I like the idea of "glow

If you want to get anything done hello my beautiful angels, I am writing this at 10:34 in the evening. Tonight I got dinner with my lovely friend who just moved to New York from London, and then we popped into a karaoke bar to sing Like a Prayer by Madonna together. It astonishes me how some people are too shy for karaoke, but then I look back at myself two years ago and I was too shy for karaoke. On Labeling Yourself I used to be very shy, actually. Sometimes I still can be,

Good morning my beautiful angels, I know the rhythm of this blog has been sort of funny lately, I just like to write as things come up and I'm trying to get better about writing about things that I go to, as well. And I sort of like the idea of people stumbling onto Hot Literati and having a lot to read through. Today, I want to talk about health and happiness, because learning more about it definitely changed my life. When I was a teenager, I struggled with body image as mos

hello all of my beautiful Hot Literatis. i have an undying love of the morning. I love the mornings. Fresh brain, and the way light is pure when it hits the trees, even in a place as urban as New York. I'm having some wind-y thoughts today so i'm going to do my best to walk you through them all with me. First off, I'd like to state The Importance of Having a Blog I attended this Startup Grind event where this Venture Captialist Charlie O'Donnell pointed to blogging as the "br

hello beautiful angels, princesses, and other people of the Hot Literati Universe. I’m so happy you’re here. Tomorrow, I'll post the winning essay of our April Competition, but for today, I’m going to tell you about some of my favorite open mics in New York and some things that I did recently! God Save the Scene Reading Yesterday, I joined my friend Chris at a reading series by GOD SAVE THE SCENE at a gallery off of Canal Street. There were a lot of great satirical pieces, a

hello beautiful angels, princes, and people of the Hot Literati Digital and irl universe I guess the thing that i'm trying to get at at this point in my life is that life is a marathon, or like trying to walk on water and that you can't look down, or else you fall and settle for a path that isn't yours. When I used to lie next to my ex on the precipice of our breakup during my stretch as a twenty-one year old tradwife, i used to hear this voice in my head that said "i won't b

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