A newsletter sharing perfectly cromulent essays about advice—giving it, taking it, trashing it—from a self-help optimist in a pessimist's world.
Author of Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies; and Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Professor on sabbatical
Academic career coach
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1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.
Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.
Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)