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Fourteen essays, and a hundred and one beginnings
Instead of an essay by me, this email carries fourteen.
Oct 22, 2025
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a body, not my body
A conversation with Vasudhaa Narayanan about her new work 'spoiled fruit'
Dec 6, 2025
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Vasudhaa Narayanan
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4pm notes #20: walking is knowing
To say I walk to regulate my temperature is only half-truth.
Jan 15
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Mar 24, 2025
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The Job of Friendship
Jan 4, 2025
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Things that expand my idea of ambition
Nov 22, 2025
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How I wrote "How to be a person"
May 29, 2025
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Two Person Job
Jun 21, 2025
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1. Becoming, no matter the seduction of great starts, happens in the great middle.
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4pm notes #19: A few questions
Zora Neale Hurston wrote, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Was this year a question or an answer?
Dec 23, 2025
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