Perfectly Cromulent

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A newsletter sharing perfectly cromulent essays about advice—giving it, taking it, trashing it—from a self-help optimist in a pessimist's world.

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About Leslie Kern

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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