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For people who like their essays personal and their humor dark, a newsletter about the body and the world and what to do with either of them. From novelist Isabel Kaplan.

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About Isabel Kaplan

Author of the national bestselling novel NSFW and the viral Guardian essay "My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I'm a writer." Happiest underwater or surrounded by books & dogs

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