Lyz Lenz

1 month ago | yourtango.com | Lyz Lenz

When my daughter was born, I was determined to be a breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, cloth-diapering hippie mama. Nine months later, the only things that had stuck were the cloth diapers. I had just started my daughter on formula; she had been in her Baby K'tan carrier exactly five times and never once slept in her fancy little co-sleeper, which I returned to the store. I felt like a failure. In addition, I was trying to juggle a freelance career with a baby.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Lyz Lenz |Leslie Jamison |Sarah Manguso |Scaachi Koul

cheat sheet Everyone’s writing about the end of their marriage, for better or worse. Divorce writing may be the toughest thing a memoirist can do other than covering a war,” writes Mary Karr in The Art of Memoir. Yet the divorce memoir — and its shy cousin, the autofictional divorce novel — has experienced a resurgence over the past couple of years with works that range from poetic to empowering to startlingly bitter about the whole institution of marriage.

1 month ago | virginiasolesmith.substack.com | Lyz Lenz |Virginia Sole-Smith |Sara Petersen

It’s been a minute since we’ve talked books, so here’s a roundup of what I’ve been reading and loving lately. And I swear I did not plan this, but there is a clear theme of moms breaking bad—or at least, dismantling a lot of bullshit norms. What can I say, I love to be on brand! I’ll be honest: The Substack landscape has changed; conversion rates are lower and churn is higher this year. That’s my business to figure out, not yours.

Nov 27, 2024 | audible.com | Susie Dumond |Lyz Lenz |Maggie Smith |Firoozeh Dumas

It's a well-known statistic that nearly half of marriages end in divorce. So why is the topic such a taboo? We see countless stories of romance and the magic of falling in love in books, television shows, and movies, but it's a lot harder to find tales of divorce—and all the pains and freedoms of life thereafter. Going through a divorce can bring about a wide range of emotions, from pain and grief to liberation and hope, and no one should ever feel alone in that experience.

Nov 19, 2024 | msnbc.com | Lyz Lenz

It didn’t take long after the presidential election for the conspiracy theories to unspool. People on X, posters on Threads, TikTok influencers, viral Substack newsletters all hummed with breathless speculation about vote totals and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite’s being used to upload and switch votes. Maybe Vice President Kamala Harris was referring to Starlink interference in her speech when she referred to “stars,” They suggested.