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Writing your way out of the restlessness

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

A monthly collage essay on the creative lives & works of (mostly) dead women

judge mathis recaps + occasional sad garbage