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·Jul 16, 2019

‘That’s So Crazy’

Why the way we talk about mental health matters — A year ago, for one month, I ran a private experiment. Whenever I heard someone say the words “crazy” or “insane,” I surreptitiously recorded the event in a notes doc on my phone. I recorded instances of “schizophrenic or “schizo” too, though those happened less often. I wrote the time…

Mental Health

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‘That’s So Crazy’
‘That’s So Crazy’
Mental Health

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Mar 4, 2018

Getting the Story “Out There”

Sunday Content #42: Sunday, March 4, 2018 Then one day it was a book, a commercial product, and I was on the road. The book launch was in Brooklyn and packed and I was jubilant. I did book events in Manhattan and Portland and San Francisco and Marin and Los…

Schizophrenia

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Getting the Story “Out There”
Getting the Story “Out There”
Schizophrenia

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Jan 28, 2018

On ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Sunday Content #41: January 28, 2018 I used to teach undergraduates at a big public university in the Midwest. My students were overwhelmingly white and suburban and, as I’ve written before, uncurious. I had assembled my first syllabus before I moved to Iowa, guessing as to what these people would…

Racism

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On ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
On ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Racism

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Jan 29, 2017

How I Learned That I Am Evil

Sunday Content #40: January 29, 2017 So as some of you know I wrote this book about schizophrenia. It’s not quite done but it’s real close. Anyway I mention it only because when you write a book about schizophrenia, you end up reading the whole time about eugenicists. How the…

Racism

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How I Learned That I Am Evil
How I Learned That I Am Evil
Racism

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Jan 1, 2017

On the Occasion of 2016 Finally Being Over

Sunday Content #39: January 1, 2017 I hadn’t looked at my Pocket queue in a whole lot of months. There were lots of pre-election and election and post-election things in it, I knew. I waded through it all. I looked at headlines and tweets written by people confident that Hillary…

2016

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On the Occasion of 2016 Finally Being Over
On the Occasion of 2016 Finally Being Over
2016

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BuzzFeed Collections

·Nov 24, 2016

How Climate Change Will End Wine As We Know It

Hotter and less predictable temperatures mean that much of the world’s premium wine regions are now under threat and new ones are emerging. How the wine industry is — and isn’t — reacting says a lot about the future of agriculture. — Originally published at www.buzzfeed.com on November 20, 2014. “All the grapes were ripening at once,” Wendy Cameron recalls of the harvest that was the wake-up call.

Wine

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How Climate Change Will End Wine As We Know It
How Climate Change Will End Wine As We Know It
Wine

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·Nov 24, 2016

At Home With Ina Garten

Whether she’s comfortable with it or not, the Barefoot Contessa star has one of the most devoted fandoms among cookbook giants. An unprecedented look inside her picture-perfect empire. — I have been inside the barn, the barn, and I can tell you this: Inside, it was beautiful. I didn’t grow up with religious institutions, really, but there was something about the space that was, assuredly, holy. When I first entered it, I leaned back, mouth agape, and took in…

Food

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At Home With Ina Garten
At Home With Ina Garten
Food

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Nov 13, 2016

The Week That Continued

Sunday Content #38: November 13, 2016 — I was talking with a friend of mine. He’s trans. He lives in a rural place. He has friends who voted for Trump. I was telling him about how it’s been a rough week to live in a high-rise building, as I do, with a balcony. I spent Wednesday half-thinking…

Racism

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The Week That Continued
The Week That Continued
Racism

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Nov 13, 2016

To my neighbors,

A Letter I Sent to My Hometown Newsletter — Many of you perhaps remember me. Some have probably moved to town since I left, which was over a decade ago now. I went to college back east and then graduate school in Iowa and then moved to New York. I was an editor at BuzzFeed for a few years…

Planned Parenthood

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Planned Parenthood

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Nov 6, 2016

How I Re-Met Hillary Clinton

Sunday Content #37: November 6, 2016 — The night Barack Obama was elected president I got naked. A whole house of us, crammed around a television, booze flowing, when they called it for Obama on TV, we screamed, we rushed outside, stripping off everything as we ran. There were about twenty of us; I was the only…

Hillary Clinton

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How I Re-Met Hillary Clinton
How I Re-Met Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

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