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Under the Table and Through the Woods
The Green Baby Lima and Yellow Split Pea of newsletters is leaning in for lit-world goss, stripping down in your living room, and dialing…
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
The Full Meal Deal
The Shirley Partridge and Carol Brady of newsletters is staring our control issues in the face, channeling our inner auntie, and washing it all down…
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
Not On Our Watch
The Wayne Gretzky and Wayne Gretzky of newsletters—we only know one hockey player—is firing up the ice with a Hollywood tragedy, proteinmaxxing 2.0, and…
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
Exile on Main Street
The Lizzie McGuire and Kelsey Peters of newsletters is back with catty mamas, rent-a-mamas, one wild-eyed MAGA mama, and a new theme song.
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock

December 2025

So...What Have You Learned? PART DEUX
The bathrobe and the scented candle of newsletters offers you a break from printing return labels with our (last) end-of-year wrap up. No really, this…
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
So…What Have You Learned? PART I
The James Caan and Bob Newhart of newsletters is playing it back and taking names.
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
The House That Nikki Built
The Marie Curie and Marie Antoinette of newsletters is on the mic with Marie Claire's Nikki Ogunnaike—an EIC who evolves like it's her job. (It is.)
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
Come and knock on our door...
The Janet Wood and Chrissy Snow of newsletters is back with hot (well, warm?) TV recs, generational discord, and gross-out comedy galore.
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock
A Saga in 5,600 Parts
The ZZ Top and ZZ plant of newsletters is surveying the splitscape and posing for a nude double portrait that will appear in next month’s Vanity Fair!
 • Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock

November 2025

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