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Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures, Necessary People, Our American Friend, and the forthcoming The Helsinki Affair (November 2023). She graduated from Yale, where she majored in English and was an editor at the Yale Daily News. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. Anna grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City and East Hampton, NY.

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I’m finding it really hard to accept that today is September 1 :(

TLDR: I’m moving this newsletter over to Substack, where it’s going to take a slightly different form. Your email will be automatically migrated over! That’s basically it. If you want the backstory, keep reading. Otherwise—happy long weekend!

When I started this blog, I purposely left it loose. There was no theme beyond whateve

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“It wasn’t that my personality changed when I met Stella. It was that it became, it flourished, because I could say things to Stella that I wouldn’t have said to anyone back home—knowing they would only respond with bafflement, or laughter—and she always volleyed right back, sharpening me like a whetstone to a knife. I didn’t just want the friendship of this dazzling girl. I wanted the world that had made her so dazzling in the first place.”
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“Stella was the vine wrapped around the limbs of my tree, and even though I had branches that were dead and dangling and should have fallen off long ago, she kept them in place.”
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“Lies require noise and misdirection to blend in, silence is the best way to draw the truth to the surface.”
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