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The Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush—go ahead, type those names into your Lycos—of newsletters is splashing around in our hot-tub time machine, not…
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Margs with Jeff
The Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler of newsletters is recruiting a Substack supergroup and booking Ivanka on Lauren Sánchez's girls-only moonshot.
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Dancing on the Ceiling
The Jennifer Beals and Paula Abdul of newsletters is high-kickin' for abortion rights in our and Swarovski-studded briefs.
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January Is Broken. We Want Our Money Back!
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Too Much Sugar for a Dime
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Laying It On Thick
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If These Walls Could Talk
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Holding a Candle in the Cold November Rain
We’re feeling Spread thin this week, how ’bout you? The Monica Geller and Janice Hosenstein of newsletters is counting gold bars and practicing our…
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Postcards from the Edge
The spooky-scary Esther Perel & Orna Guralnik of newsletters—the people have spoken!—is getting big stuff off our chest, voice-acting Vanessa Carlton’s…
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Divas Live!
The Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy of newsletters—sorry, SJP—is luxuriating in the gospel of Barbra, leaning into Madge as American hero, and swilling…
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Who's Got Shotgun?
The Nurse and Mercutio of newsletters is desperately seeking Phoebe, high-fiving Kerry, and paging Elise. (Who are we, Lou Bega?)
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Something to Talk About
The Wham! of newsletters is conjuring our inner “big, ugly Irish girl,” trading Burning Man for the Kennedy School, and yes, fine, bloggin' our buns…
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Happy Woman Blues
The Ernest and Julio Gallo of newsletters is savoring a piece of not-totally-awful post-Roe news, checking in with X Æ A-XII’s folks, and wiki-ing our…
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Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
The Marilyn Monroe and James Dean—think “American Classics,” not “Gone Too Soon”—of newsletters is grieving past-life friendships and Rorschach-ing…
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The Spread
The Spread
What would make the perfect women’s magazine? Juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal examinations of women’s lives—and none of the advertiser obligations. Welcome to the Spread!
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