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Candy for Breakfast

About the Substack

Funny feelings, weird careers, making art, American history, and how to be alive.

About Max Nussenbaum

I write about funny feelings, weird careers, making art, American history, and how to be alive. Also, I once won the New Yorker cartoon caption contest.

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