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NYC: Come To The Distraction LIVE On October 4

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Alex Sujong Laughlin

The author holding a chestnut she found on the street

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That’s What I Get For Trying To Honor My Ancestors With Chestnuts I Found On The Street

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Life Lessons

The Only Depressed Adult At The World’s Largest Indoor Ropes Course

Kelsey McKinney

Alex Sujong Laughlin and Kelsey McKinney standing beside Flat Margaret.

Podcasts

Kelsey And Alex’s Big Adventure: Notes From Normal Gossip On The Road

WASHINGTON, DC - April 7: The fossilized 36 million-year-old skeleton of a tree squirrel known as Douglassciurus jeffersoni is on display as part of the "Objects of Wonder" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Paleontologist Gene Hunt, pictured, said it's one of the most complete prehistoric squirrel skeletons ever discovered. (By John Kelly/The Washington Post)

Funbag

Where Are All The Squirrel Skeletons?

Taylor Swift performing, with some help from a video projection of herself and some other smaller video versions of herself, during her show in Kansas City.

Music

What Does Taylor’s Version Of The Past Look Like?

Gimlet Media co-founder Alex Blumberg speaks at the Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York City, in 2017.

Capital

Gimlet Media’s Story Was Always Going To End Like This

Writers Guild of America members walk the picket line on the first day of their strike in front of Amazon studios on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.

Arts And Culture

Reality TV Won’t Fix What’s Broken About Hollywood Economics

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Defector Reads A Book

Let’s All Confess What We Thought Of ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’

circa 1960: Child actor Johnny Crawford looks forward to eating a pile of pancakes in an International House of Pancakes, a chain of eateries in the USA started in 1958 by Californian brothers Al and Jerome Lapin. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

I Don’t Want Brain By Seventeen, I Want Body By Pancake

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All The Gossip About Normal Gossip’s New Partner