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Hannah is a good friend of mine and also my colleague at the New Yorker: she writes the Tables for Two column in the magazine every week. She has such a knack for describing food that everything of hers that I read, I immediately want to start eating!!! Highly recommended.
May 20, 2021
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look this may get me excommunicated from this app for first of all recc’ ing something as obvious as the New Yorker and second of all for saying out loud: I’ve never been to New York. But bless bless bless Hannah Goldfield for somehow still taking me there. Her Tables for Two were lush, passionate, thoughtful words on NYC food. I love reading culinary reviews (and articles on perfume too? But this is a recc for another day 🤷♀️) and none have captured my imagination quite like Hannah’s. This paragraph in particular is sexy as hell
Jan 23, 2024
probably my favourite profile of anyone ever, I reread it at least once every few months. It’s understandable why people have soured on her in the last few years, but she does heroic editorial work at T (which is the only reason I still have a NYT subscription) and this profile is a fun look into her own aesthetic tastes and process (second, related rec: I started follwing her 9pm-12am writing schedule after I got a day job and it works great for me but I’m a night owl)
Mar 12, 2024
THE VOICE OF HER GENERATION!!
Move Over, Hannah Horvath!!
Hunter is my absolute favorite writer on pop culture and celebrity and movies and just culture at large.
She’s so witty and has the best takes on celebrity drama, which films to watch (she programmed some great stuff at metrograph!), and just some fun general life updates!
It feels like reading a letter from a friend (sorry parasocial alert) <3
She’s also been profiled on here :)
Apr 28, 2024
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I’d read “Wide Sargasso Sea” many years ago but I wasn’t familiar with Jean Rhys’s other novels until my friend Emily Gould urged me to read them, so I’m passing on this rec to you. “Good Morning, Midnight,” “After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie,” “Quartet,” and “Voyage in the Dark” were all written between the two world wars, and are all slim books about a Rhys-like protagonist: a woman alone who drinks too much and is always in verging-on-desperate straits, between Paris and London. Really amazing if depressing.
May 20, 2021
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This is a very basic but very powerful idea that I stole from my husband’s brain. If you get a pineapple at the store and cut it into not-very-big chunks, and then you put them in a bowl covered in saran wrap in the fridge, every time you open the fridge to get something you can stick your fingers in there and grab a perfectly cold, delicious, and sweet chunk of pineapple to shove in your mouth. It’s very refreshing! And I imagine will seem even more so as spring ends and the heat of summer begins!
May 20, 2021
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Somehow still the best writing music when I’m on a deadline (which is almost constantly).
May 20, 2021