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Jun 25, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Leslie Stephens |Max Brooks |Paul G Tremblay
For connoisseurs of speculative fiction who enjoy detailed worldbuilding. In the near future, the world is run by WellCorp but all is far from well. Stephens’ debut begins in “Zone 874, Pacific Ocean, 29 Days Post-Launch,” where we find one of our two heroines, Maggie, alone and afloat in a vessel called a WellPod, which is about to serve her a so-called latte made of mushrooms and root vegetables.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!📺 “Extrapolations” on Apple TV+: At times navel-gazey (in a “Hi, we’re Apple and we want you to know we care about Earth” sort of way) this anthology series by ‘Contagion’ writer Scott Burns imagines climate change across 33 years, beginning in 2046.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!📚 Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May: It felt like kismet when a friend sent me this New York Times article after the Tuesday I describe below. In it, May describes slowing down enough to add awe back into her life—a topic she delves into far more depth, in her audiobook which I listened to across several walks.
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens |Priyanka Aribindi
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!📺 ‘Faraway’ on Netflix: It is not lost on me that this movie, about a woman who discovers she’s been left a house in Croatia, features the exact same song as the ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ trailer, or that Netflix specifically targeted me with it. It is, as promised, an uplifting story about a newly single woman who goes off into the world to find herself.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!📺 “Daisy Jones & the Six” on Prime Video: I can’t tell you how relieved I am that this mini-series, based on the bestselling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is actually good.
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Feb 28, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!📚 Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner: I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve walked into a bookstore and finished a book before leaving. I read Millner’s collection of poetry twice this past Saturday—first for the story, then again slowly to absorb her gorgeous couplets about leaving a longterm relationship (“His love had been the organizing system/ of my life.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!🎥 ‘All That Breathes’ on HBO Max: The first documentary to win “Best Documentary” at both Cannes and Sundance, this compassionate film follows three men in New Delhi as they rehabilitate birds of prey in the city.
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Feb 14, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!🎥 ‘KIMI’ on HBO Max: Steven Soderbergh’s thriller, starring Zoë Kravitz as a tech analyst who hears something disturbing through an Alexa-type app, topped countless “best of” lists last year and just started streaming on HBO.
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Feb 7, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!💕 “Meet Cute” Mini Rom-Coms:Rom-Coms and romance novels are having a resurgence, and I’m all for it. I’ve already scheduled a Galentine’s Day double-feature to watch ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ and ‘Your Place or Mine’ (out Friday!) and have been diving into Meet Cute’s series of feel-good stories about love.
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Feb 2, 2023 | 
morningpersonnewsletter.com | Leslie Stephens
When I launched Morning Person in the fall of 2021, most of my subscribers came from Instagram or already knew me from my previous roles at cupcakes and cashmere and Food52. I could write about Toast (my dog), school (I’m halfway through my Master’s), my husband (things are complicated at the moment), and my book, all with the assumption that you already knew what I was talking about.
