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My friend, Gloria
My friend, Gloria, died last week. She was my family’s au pair when I was growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. She lived with us from before I was born until…
Fiona Maazel
Mar 22
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I wrote an essay about my asshole dog
And so maybe you guys want to read it! Sorry I’ve been so delinquent. I am wracked with anxiety about all my choices. In the meantime, go read an essay…
Fiona Maazel
Nov 30, 2021
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I wrote an essay about my asshole dog
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As I die, "Ease on Down the Road," please
What can’t I stop thinking about? I’m glad you asked, because it’s not the hopelessly navel-gazing and entitled brouhaha about Dawn and Sonya. Nope…
Fiona Maazel
Oct 14, 2021
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As I die, "Ease on Down the Road," please
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Some quick thoughts because I cannot sustain any long ones
Lately, I’ve been having trouble sticking with an idea or point of inquiry for more than a few minutes at a time. I understand why this is…
Fiona Maazel
Sep 8, 2021
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A very brief disquisition on food, vulnerability, and middle age. So brief, I'm not sayin' a whole lot.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about exposure. Yes, of course, exposure once the masks come off and everyone can see me again (have you had that thing…
Fiona Maazel
Jun 17, 2021
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A very brief disquisition on food, vulnerability, and middle age. So brief, I'm not sayin' a whole lot.
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I Think You Should Leave
A friend of mine recently wrote for Wired about the sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave—how he’d missed the show’s genius at first and has now come…
Fiona Maazel
May 4, 2021
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On endings, because I don't like them and they don't exist, except when they do.
From a Paris Review interview with John Ashbery: “A gag that's probably gone unnoticed turns up in the last sentence of the novel I wrote with James…
Fiona Maazel
Apr 22, 2021
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On endings, because I don't like them and they don't exist, except when they do.
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It's been a month
I’m sorry for the quietus. There are things I’ve wanted to share with you but whenever I sit down to write, I wake up with the keyboard imprinted on my…
Fiona Maazel
Mar 4, 2021
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I’ve been watching this show obsessively for the last week. Mostly I’m thinking things like: is Damien Lewis hot? Sometimes yes, sometimes no (those of…
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Feb 7, 2021
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In which I get bratty about language
So, yesterday a friend reported to me with some pride that she’s been thinking recently about the importance of words. This is the context of data and…
Fiona Maazel
Jan 28, 2021
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In which I get bratty about language
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Do you talk to strangers?
Many years ago, during my Paris Review days, I was in the anteroom of some bank, waiting for a colleague to get some money, when I struck up a…
Fiona Maazel
Jan 22, 2021
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Do you talk to strangers?
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OMG, folks
I haven’t forgotten about you. But I *have* been consumed by the fate of democracy, and pretty tongue-tied as a result. And it’s not like any of you…
Fiona Maazel
Jan 10, 2021
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OMG, folks
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