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If you’re mad about #davidchang ’s #chilicrunch situation, wait til I tell you about this James Beard Award-nominated article I wrote in 2020: eater.com/22193151/momof…

For my first piece for The Wall Street Journal Off Duty, I’m all about those kids club (with thanks to my littlest explorers for their input—and to Sebastian Modak, for letting me write about it): wsj.com/lifestyle/trav…

Both subtle AND overt!

Massachusetts-ians: I’m voting No Preference on Tuesday. Please join me.

One secret is knowing that all of these rates are incorrect. The other is insisting on rate-transparency and asking for more money on every contract and refusing to write for a low wage.

While G@zans starve, American tourists (in this case, from New Jersey) rejoice in Isr@el, watching as IDF soldiers receive “good food, music, books, and massages on their day off.”

In the February issue of Travel + Leisure, on newsstands now: this piece about butlers, and why they are the essential luxury hack. Buy the magazine!

Weird seeing yet another public figure plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech.

I’ve been shadow-banned on here for months now (I have a feeling I know why, but anyway), and it’s truly bananas to see people getting like 900k views for tweets about their kids’ buttholes while I share my hottt takessss on v important things that go nowhere. Carry on.

If you all are not listening to The Ringer Reality podcast series 'An American Scandoval ' you are doing yourself a disservice! It is so brilliantly done and features so many experts including Hannah Selinger who coined the phrase Scandoval. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-h…

Don’t miss my essential IN/OUT list for 2024.

As a holiday treat, Hannah Howard and I have extended our early-bird pricing for our next class--our oft-requested Pitching Workshop--through the end of the year. We're holding this class on January 24, from 12-2 ET. Join us!

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I have a holiday feel good essay about the time I got banned from Filene’s out in The New York Times today (print tomorrow). Read it and scroll to the bottom to see the soft-launch of my book, which now has a name. nytimes.com/2023/12/16/sty…

You heard it here first: Lee Kern accuses everyone—even Jonathan Greenblatt—of being in Hamas. I knew it!! That guy’s so dodgy!

So this Islamophobic “writer” wants me to believe that neutral commenters on the Palestinian occupation—including *checks notes* the Red Cross—are members of Hamas. Got it.

Greenblatt is an antisemite.

Dig into all things travel writing with me and the brilliant Hannah Selinger. Friendofhannah promo code for $15 off ✨ eventbrite.com/e/travel-writi…

“We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.” New: an open letter.
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I’ve had so much to say about Half Baked Harvest for so long. I’m so glad that Julia Moskin reported this piece so that I could read it (and be a source for it)! nytimes.com/2023/10/30/din…