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The Tamagotchi That Won’t Die
A Decade of Instagram and Self-Consumption From Dagny Tepper, Mommy of Pilot Magazine <3 I’ve decided to start this think piece by...
Dagny
Aug 23, 2024


Find Yourself Online (stop looking)
I tried to make my first Youtube video around 10. It was a hair tutorial that my sweet, archival father definitely still has tucked away...
Hailo
Aug 7, 2024


30. Little deaths/Little delights
Everyone say, good morning Victoria Hi hi, Happy Sunday (Monday?Tuesday?). These past three weeks have been some of the most exciting...
HOT LITERATI
Aug 4, 2024


Jonathan Haidt on the Thought Daughter
There is a new character in the Hot Literati digital universe. His name is Jonathan and he ♡s (re)Cognition Summer. You'll be seeing a...
HOT LITERATI
Aug 3, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer Syllabus
The following are books and readings that I think really capture and tackle and confront some of the social, philosophical, and societal...
Hailo
Jul 13, 2024


Hungover Musings, Summer Flings
26. Little Deaths/Delights For better or worse, or better and worse, life always feels like some sort of dream to me. This comes up a lot...
Hailo
Jul 7, 2024


(re)COGNITION SUMMER: … Into the Anaxagoric Emerald
by Anderson I remember my future now. I am Caribbean royalty and all the big city is my proxy throne. I wear the waves on my back like a...
Anderson
Jul 2, 2024


The World has its own Music
and God, his own schedule Music has sounded so wonderful lately, because I have been listening to less. I've been watching the sunset in...
Hailo
Jul 1, 2024

alive girl diaries: week 2
Defanging Big Tech’s Frankenstein There’s a recurring ad that I’ve been getting since I graduated high school. It first showed up on...
Ananya
Jun 26, 2024


Hello, Hailo
How I found belonging in Hot Literati And when I say “Hailo”, I don’t just mean Hailo herself (although, yes…hello to the curly hair and...
Alexandra Rae
Jun 24, 2024


The People According to Hot Literati #1
We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.
HOT LITERATI
Jun 21, 2024


Rules for (re)Cognition Summer
Writing this on two hours of sleep, a biscoff cookie, and an 8 pm cup of coffee, but I know you all love an arbitrary seasonal set of...
Hailo
Jun 21, 2024

alive girl diaries: week 1
The Funky Bar Agenda
Ananya
Jun 18, 2024


Are you Verified?
Mr. Chalamet (yes, he's back...) was telling me about "Tinder in real life" the other day -- a video series in which one guest "swipes"...
Hailo
Jun 14, 2024

(re)Cognition Summer: Reconnecting with the Subway Car
Do me a favor. Next time you’re out running errands, existing in a liminal space, or in the coffee line, look around. Look with...
Bella Ve
Jun 13, 2024


Making the impossible choice.
ALIVE GIRL DIARIES: WEEK 0 by Ananya For the modern literati; join me as I test out new strategies each week to reclaim my cognition and...
Ananya
Jun 10, 2024


5 Dates, One Week (Again)
Hi Literatis. I hope you all have had a wonderful week and weekend. I have had what I like to call a "memory-dense" one. I started using...
Hailo
Jun 9, 2024


On the Importance of Digital Boundaries
Welcome to (re)Cognition Summer, with Hot Literati. Let's get your mind back, baby. Unless you're new here, you know I think about the...
Hailo
Jun 6, 2024


Moonlight Bites
I’m a baker now (manifesting)! I was going to post the recipe by itself, but I wanted to share the why as well. Since the why is a lot of...
nwakaego
Jun 3, 2024


A Summer Manifesto
Hi all <3 I'm writing to you from my neighborhood restaurant. I used to come in here a couple of times a week. They noticed when I...
Hailo
Jun 1, 2024
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