Haley Mlotek

2 months ago | deezlinks.com | Haley Mlotek |Delia Cai

✨ Hate Read Season 2 is brought to you by the legendary champion of indie media herself, Ruth Ann Harnisch, of the Harnisch Foundation. ✨Since 2023, there has been a renaissance of memoirs and autofiction about divorced women written by divorced women. Publishing would have us believe that there is an insatiable market for these stories, and so titles have been churned out in rapid succession.

Mar 4, 2025 | entertainment-mag.com | Scaachi Koul |Martin’s Press |Haley Mlotek

Mlotek’s memoir takes a different tone. Oscillating between a personal accounting of heartache and a granular sociological deconstruction of the institutions of marriage and divorce, this book is at its best when the author writes about herself. Often painful and longing but sometimes academic to a fault, Mlotek thrives when she finds permission to chronicle her own experiences outside a historical survey. She comes from a long line of divorces; her mother was a marriage counselor.

Mar 3, 2025 | nytimes.com | Scaachi Koul |Martin's Press |Haley Mlotek

SUCKER PUNCH: Essays, by Scaachi KoulNO FAULT: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, by Haley MlotekI can't recall the first time I saw "The Misfits," John Huston's 1961 cinematic masterpiece about a quartet of mutually disenfranchised wanderers, but I'm certain it was after I'd become a divorcée. I know it wouldn't have stuck with me so permanently otherwise.

Sep 3, 2024 | cjr.org | Haley Mlotek

In January 2022, Glossier—a beauty blog turned beauty company that sells itself as being by and for cool girls—announced layoffs. Glossier was founded by Emily Weiss, formerly a staffer at Vogue, then a CEO who became a member of the rarefied group of girlbosses who saw their market value deflate during the pandemic.

Feb 6, 2024 | bookforum.com | Haley Mlotek

THIS IS ONLY AN OPINION, BUT: no one should make art about their divorce until they’ve experienced at least one heartbreak after the marriage’s end. I keep an inventory of all the times I encounter an artist who manages, in telling a story about a divorce, to also include the story of another breakup that followed the supposedly definitive one. I love to see anything that complicates more straightforward accounts of life after divorce.