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What's got my attention this week #49
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What's got my attention this week #49

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

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May 17, 2024
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Meryl doing the red carpet her way at the Cannes Film Festival this week

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• Are you a cake-eater – or worse, do you live with one?
• Tracey Emin: “What would I have done in the past forty years if I’d been sober?”
• I’ve long thought menopause is like puberty in reverse.

Dr. Jen Gunter
makes the case.
• Should I get rid of my clothes after divorce?
• Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, master of the art of the short story, died this week, aged 92.
Margaret Atwood
– her second oldest remaining friend – paid tribute.
• I loved
lyz
’s manifesto for a summer of burning it all down.
• “I didn’t truly know my mother until I cooked with her.”
•
Elissa Altman
on being told you don’t exist.
• Six weeks of testosterone has given me my groove back.

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