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How to moderate ambition. A call for May check-ins!
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The Wow-ness of Things
COVID returns. More poems. Montaigne. Jenny Odell. Two new songs.
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More Men Who Are Afraid
A follow-up batch of fears.
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The Mind Reels in America w/Freddie deBoer
What it's like to be institutionalized.
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What It's Like to Be a Fearful Man
Our next check-in confronts the masculinity disease.
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Self-Harm Via Fat Sandwich
Gluttony is still my fav drug. Poetry compilation dreams. Tunes for goons.
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What It Used to Eat Like
“I felt like someone watching a lit cherry bomb get thrown down a toilet.”
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Julieanne Smolinski
We’ll Make Great Pets
“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I…
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Meaghan Garvey
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Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Richard Rushfield
“Like so many, I grew up with broken tools for relating to others, and alcohol became the way I learned how to do that.”
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Oldster Magazine
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War Stories About War Stories
More on the masculinity disease. Thomas Lux. Tunes that real men would probably hate.
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Introducing the Recovery Go-Bag
A new feature about how people keep their spiritual side alive when chaos reigns.
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You Did It, Man! w/Cord Jefferson
How to stay humble before and after success.
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