Haley Nahman

1 week ago | haleynahman.substack.com | Haley Nahman

Hey!I also bought a beat-up copy of The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch from our local bookstore, but Avi told me it’s a Red Scare favorite :(“Critics, Fans, and Subjects (with Tavi Gevinson),” a great conversation between Tavi and Rayne Fisher-Quann on navigating celebrity and taking risks. “I thought about how it might alienate some people.…

1 week ago | haleynahman.substack.com | Haley Nahman

My first job out of college was as an office manager for a tech startup that helped businesses run sweepstakes on Facebook. The office was stocked with junk food and strewn with Razor scooters I purchased in bulk to boost morale. My job required a little of everything: onboarding new hires, managing the CEO’s calendar, ordering pizza when our accounts team hit their sales goals.

2 weeks ago | haleynahman.substack.com | Haley Nahman

Hey!I bravely wore a cotton vest to the writing center this morning only to have two women in vests (also with long wavy hair and no makeup) sit next to me and now we look like we’re in a cult. This has forced some inward looking. “What Parents of Boys Should Know,” by Joshua Coleman for The Atlantic, as recommended in Wednesday’s discussion thread. This…

2 weeks ago | haleynahman.substack.com | Haley Nahman

Hey!Welcome back to Dear Babies, where I pose a question to you all that I received for my advice column because I either didn’t know where I stood on it or felt like the question would benefit from being cast to a wider audience. This month it’s the latter. I received the question that inspired this round a couple weeks ago, but it reminded me of anoth…

2 weeks ago | haleynahman.substack.com | Haley Nahman

Good morning and welcome back to Dear Baby! Today we have a woman wondering whether she has to tell her serious boyfriend about an old affair, someone worried their relationship is falling apart right before they move in together (including their sex life), and a pregnant woman who’s filled with dread and worried her partner isn’t more excited about the baby (including a bonus pic of me pregnant and miserable). Kind of a birds and bees extended cut.