Molly Wizenberg

1 month ago | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg |Hallie Bateman |Marian Bull

Every so often, I get on Zoom with someone whose work and mind I admire, and then I share our conversation with you. Today that someone is the writer and illustrator . I first encountered Hallie’s work about a decade ago on Instagram. Or maybe I was tipped off by the writer and ceramicist , a longtime friend of Hallie’s, whom I met a long time ago in the wild world of online food writing and whose tastes in food, literature, and friendship are impeccable.

2 months ago | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg

But at no point did I think of myself as having an agenda that could be called political. Rather, my agenda, to the extent that it can even be called that, has always been to speak as honestly as possible to my own experience of negotiating and navigating a life as myself, as a self — multifarious, restless, necessarily ever changing as the many factors of merely being also change — in a world of selves.

2 months ago | cronesandwich.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg

I don’t know what it says about me that so many of my friends have amazing chickpea recipes to share, but let’s not overthink it. Because up next is the amazing (Molly Wizenberg-Choi, if you’re on Instagram, where you can follow the hottest, queerest couple in the world with along their amazing offspring). I “met” Molly—and by “met” I mean “read online and felt like I knew”—back when she wrote her long-running recipe blog Orangette.

2 months ago | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg

Why are you so angry? My husband frequently asked me why I was so much angrier than other women. It always made me smile. I was exactly as angry as every other woman I knew. It wasn’t that we’d been born angry; we’d become women and ended up angry. — Sarah Manguso, LiarsI didn’t watch the events of Inauguration Day, but I scrolled through the photos. Like everybody, I puzzled at Melania’s hat. I read the transcript of Trump’s inaugural address, but I didn’t watch it.

Jan 9, 2025 | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg |Anne Petersen |Dana Miranda

First:If you’re heartsick at the images of wildfire devastation in the Los Angeles area, I found this LA Times article to be helpful, with its concise list of where, how, and why to donate. But I try to remember, too, that donating to nonprofits isn’t the only way to help from afar; we can also send money directly to friends, family, and even acquaintances who are affected.