Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Toxic friends, Temu victims and the outskirts of reality

Plus: The personal essay industrial complex is BACK, baby

Feb 25, 2024
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The personal essay is BACK, baby … if it was ever truly gone. Reasonable people can disagree on that point. What is Instagram if not one lengthy personal narration?

I think we can all agree, however, that the original golden age of the personal essay spanned the first half of the 2010s. That era gave us Thought Catalog, xoJane, Buzzfeed Ideas … and then …

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