Molly Wizenberg

1 week ago | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg

I’ve heard myself say that I love to travel alone. I might even say it’s one of my favorite things to do. I love being in airports alone, on planes alone, in the car alone, in hotel rooms alone. I don’t mind eating alone in restaurants. Time expands, balloons, busts open the clock. A two-hour flight is relatively short, but if you’re alone, you can sleep from boarding to landing, and two hours is a very long nap.

3 weeks ago | mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg

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 poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic Seán Hewitt. I first heard Seán Hewitt’s name in 2022, when his luminous memoir All Down Darkness Wide was published. But for reasons I can no longer trace, it took me until last fall to pick up his work, after Taylor mentioned having read an advance copy of Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven.

2 months 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.

Jan 30, 2025 | 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.