I've Got a Feeling

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 29, 2025 | 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.