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Tolstoy’s Impulse Purchases: A Short-Story Gift Guide
All suggestions free and cheaper than a horse. Happy holidays!
Dec 11, 2025
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We Have Never Lived in the Castle: On Edinburgh
Déjà vu all over again...
Nov 22, 2025
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The Original Redhead
On Sarah Newmeyer and Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art
Nov 21, 2025
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My Favorite Mistake
Or: The Book Cover That Got Away
Oct 31, 2025
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Looting at the Louvre
You win some, you lose a lot.
Oct 23, 2025
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How To Write Good Narrative Nonfiction
Oct 5, 2025
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The Desperate Harvest, or Writing like an Bank Robber
The sharp turns in an artist's self-assessments. Hunting for a definition of free writing. The journal that refuses to be a verb. Women "recognizing…
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Aug 23, 2025
I'm Gonna Need a Headless Duck Named Herman Pronto
A conversation in asynchronous audio letters between Sloane Crosley and Jacqueline Novak. The gamble of writing. An artist's backstage needs. Flap copy…
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Aug 8, 2025
Keep Your Eye Off the Ball: On Writing with an Indirect Gaze
Installment 002. Sloane Crosley and Jacqueline Novak go against their comedic instincts in order to discuss philosophies of craft. Backstage panic. Two…
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Jul 25, 2025
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GREAT ARTISTS STEEL 001: Notes on Douchebags from a Donut in a Donut Shop
Sloane Crosley and Jacqueline Novak in an audio exchange about language, taste, ambition, and other sweet treats. With transcript.
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Jul 11, 2025
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Sloane Crosley and I Text Our Way to a Summer Series on Substack
Launching this week. A very serious literary correspondence. And the days of texting that led us here.
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Jul 7, 2025
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Jun 30, 2025
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Sloane Crosley
Author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, The Clasp, Look Alive Out There, Cult Classic and Grief Is for People
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