I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world... one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe" -John Polkinghorne
Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
The arts, books, movies, a course: Write it!, The Writing Life, (Re)Making Love: a memoir (fully up now), Who by Fire: a novel, Cooking With Mary, Watercolors and story in Letters to My Granddaughter.
Within this sanctuary, all who quest for the sacred hallows are welcome: we hear the ancestral voices and sing the ancient stories, remembering who we are. This Sanctuary is hospitable to all people of good will, without persuasion or judgement.
Once a week, I share a short illustrated essay, hand-painted and hand-lettered, from my desk to yours. Like wishing on a dandelion, I hope it’ll bring a moment of beauty and wonder to your day.
Notes From Erin is a weekly newsletter focused on all thing books and music. Get recommendations on what to read next, and what to add to your playlists.
Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
I write about the present moment intimacies, tender beauty, and shocking difficulty of caregiving and how I am learning to tend myself while caring for my husband.
