Libby Watson

Los Angeles

Writer at Sick Note

the best mono-thingy guy there ever was. streaming at https://t.co/iSl5DaDswF

Articles

How America Failed the Unhoused

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Libby Watson

Books & the Arts / June 10, 2025 The Other Americans Where can the overworked and unhoused go? How America Failed the UnhousedBrian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor. Ad Policy Atlanta during a heat wave in 2022. (Dustin Chambers / Getty Images) This article appears in the July/August 2025 issue. Americans are unusually preoccupied with work.
The Case For Thanksgiving II

Nov 25, 2024 | defector.com | Libby Watson

Welcome to Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club, a cooking and hosting column from Libby Watson, who likes to throw dinner parties but is normal about it. A quick thank-you to people who emailed me about bo ssam! I would especially like to shout out Jerry, who said the post inspired him to invite new neighbors over for dinner, which is just the most lovely thing I've ever heard.
Just Say Yes | Matthew Shen Goodman

Jun 3, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Matthew Goodman |Toby Jaffe |Libby Watson

You can trace the liberalizing contours of the American public’s relationship to drugs by way of the last few presidents’ consumption habits. Clinton famously didn’t inhale, only willing to admit to touching reefer in England. Before his religious reawakening at forty, Bush the younger by all accounts led a wild life.
Does Eating Chocolate Actually Trigger Migraine?

Apr 30, 2024 | thecut.com | Libby Watson

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos Getty Images On a recent Sunday, I had a migraine headache. I’d felt pretty good that morning. I cleaned the kitchen and did a crossword puzzle with my husband. It promised to be a productive day. Then, at about 1 p.m., it struck out of nowhere.
Dance Dance Revolution?

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Hubert Adjei-Kontoh |Libby Watson |J.w. McCormack

“Let’s look at the stats, I’ve got the facts / My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat!” Boy-rat hybrid Ben Shapiro’s recent foray into the political rap arena was as insipid as it was wrongheaded, but the wild idea that music can and should be used for political interventions is not contained to the right. In 2020, there was a spate of cash-grab releases that were supposed to deal with the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that followed.
Mónica de la Torre

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Libby Watson |J.w. McCormack

Later in the month appears a variant of concern. The news gets torn up. The room is also a house in the immersive tests and rioting. The houses you definitely don’t want include a deepening political divide. Not guilty of homicide a counterfactual fable in a case that ignited man and her family. Able to maintain the definition most strikingly that he had acted across generations. Partial lunar eclipse when first woman becomes acting president for 85 minutes. Full bright moon had become stiffer.
Green tuppence strewn

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Wayne Koestenbaum |Libby Watson

This piece is published as web-exclusive material for issue no. 73, “Consolation Prizes.”Green tuppence strewn across a landThen my golden cookies came to the rescueOur boutique is rad. Call me bunion. Dead woman rummaged through Ferocious stubble undoes wan pedestrian’s equanimity. Crying girl squelches urgeBlack wire mesh around scaffolding depicts crucified limbs—allegoryMaître d’s pants—slayers—more snug tart-pants I spent unpoetic hours struggling to love.
Machine City | Ed Park

Apr 1, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Ed Park |A. S. Hamrah |Libby Watson

I’m not an actor, but I was in a movie once. Bethany Blanket cast me in her student project my sophomore year at Yale. In one scene, I was made up to look old, with a wrinkled brow and a wig streaked white with talc. This morning, in the elevator at work, I saw that face again. A devastating start to the day. Machine City was a half-hour two-hander. It screened the weekend before winter break, at an unheated auditorium in the law school. You could see your breath.
Let's Make Dinner For Friends, Like For A Dinner Party, But Normal

Mar 27, 2024 | defector.com | Libby Watson

The dinner party has a well-earned reputation as a gauntlet of class anxiety, snobbery, and social exclusion. Use the right fork; bring the right wine; take off your shoes right the fuck now before you step even one of your disgusting feet onto my nice floor. It’s also deeply gendered, of course.
Sex and Drugs | Jeff Weinstein

Jan 8, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Jeff Weinstein |Libby Watson |Esmat Elhalaby

I’m a seventy-six-year-old cisgender male with silver hair who had sex with about a dozen guys last year. Guys only, all ages, a few regulars and some one-time online hookups, each offering a different kind of vibration and satisfaction. That tally includes my darling spouse, Daniel, in his early thirties, who himself sees oodles of men, all of them older, like me.