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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg
First, quickly:This fall I had the great fortune of taking part in a series of conversations at Seattle Public Library about female middle age.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg
Quickly:Two spots have opened up in the writing retreat I am leading next April in the French Pyrenees. Please join us! I cannot wait. My next online workshop will be in January, a three-week, six-session class on turning memories into meaningful essays. To register or learn more, hop over here. I love teaching this curriculum. I will be offering a workshop in California next October, my first time teaching at Asilomar, near Monterey.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg
On Tuesday night we had two friends over — both colleagues of Ash’s, both midwives, one of them the midwife who delivered Ames — to eat soup and talk about Miranda July’s All Fours. All of us had read the book and had talked offhand about finding a time to discuss it, but the plan coalesced quickly last week over text. We were all free on election night, turned out: why not do it then? It would be a useful distraction. Late Tuesday afternoon, I started to cook.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg
Like a lot of us, I feel restless, preoccupied by the upcoming election. Yesterday my fatherβs cousin in Toronto texted me and my siblings to remind us to apply for Canadian passports, βπ.β π. For the first time in nearly three decades as a registered voter, I put a political sign in our yard. It was just one of the basic Harris/Walz ones, but I was excited about it.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg |Garth Greenwell
Every so often, I get on Zoom with someone whose work and mind I admire, and then I bring our conversation to you. Today — and last week — that someone is the novelist, literary critic, and educator , whose third book Small Rain was published on September 3. Because I hated to cut much of anything from our conversation, I broke it into two installments, the second of which is below. As you’ll see, we cover a semi-staggering amount of ground — let’s call it a Greenwellian expanse?
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
mollywizenberg.substack.com | Molly Wizenberg |Garth Greenwell |Amelia Morris
Every so often, I get on Zoom with someone whose work and mind I admire, and then I bring our conversation to you. Today that someone is the novelist, literary critic, and educator , whose third book Small Rain was published on September 3. His body of work means more to me than that of any other living writer. I remember the first time I encountered his writing, how puzzled and then intrigued and then bewitched I was by his sentences.