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Flirty Fall & WHIM Magazine Launch

A Flirty Fall Bucketlist

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Find Hot Literatis in Your City

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We threw a Steinbeck Party

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Getting Into the Toni Morrison Mindset at Grand Cru Chicago

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Pickleball and Kalshi

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The Pros at the Parliament

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New York Poetry Prize Party

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Secret Agent Reading

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Blue Afternoon by Georgia McCann

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Farmers Market at Lore

On July 25th, I, hailo, went to Lore-- a new sauna in Noho for The Bathhouse Block Party event. Lore is one of many new saunas in New York as the wellness industry continues to expand and clubbing begins to dwindle. I am no better than the headlines. I am a member of Gen Z who gets off on being in…

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A woman, alone, abroad.

On March 25, 2026 I, Julia, stepped off the plane and onto the tarmac, immediately flooded by unfamiliarity. I had already booked my trains from city to city, starting tomorrow morning, but for now it was past my bedtime and I had no idea how to get to my hostel in the center of Warsaw. Some signs…

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Anaïs Nin Night

On Tuesday, July 21st Hot Literati Member and writer Marissa Vivian lead our New York Chapter through Anaïs Nin Night. Hot Literatis never flake It was a crazy day in New York, as a storm broke and we all got notifications of a tornado warning! But still, we gathered as a group to celebrate life,…

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The New Critic Launch Party

On July 18th, 2026 I, hailo, went to a literary party. As I write this, I am drinking coffee on the couch and intermittently reading The Idiot. I'm on page 407. The New Critic is a literary magazine founded by some recent Ivy League grads looking to create a space where Gen Z can write anything,…

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The Whitney Biennial

On Sunday, July 12th I, hailo, went to the Whitney to see the Biennial. The first time I ever heard about the Whitney Biennial was through an artist I used to date. A piece he was working on was being considered. An "almost" is what he was left with, I think. I didn't plan on going to the Whitney…

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Hearth is one of New York's Hottest Restaurants

Plus Steamed Chicken, La Cabra, & my DMs are closed (unless you are a brand or an invitation) hello party girls I don't check Hot Literati's DMs very much because I've been prioritizing engaging with members on the website-- members who post, come to book club, and more. But I did check them…

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I Will Move Back to Wichita when it's Walkable

I love Wichita. It is my hometown and is the reason I am who I am in many ways. However, every time I come home I remember why I keep leaving. Wichita has a slight problem with the diversification of its economy-- a problem that business and community leaders and tackling head on. For an ambitious,…

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Niche Culinary Institute

On July 6th, 2026 I, hailo, headed to downtown Wichita to visit NICHE's Culinary School. Photo by Kevin Colborn Niche is a part of Wichita State's Technical School, training the next generation of chefs, restaurant operators, and others suited to disrupt the hospitality industry. Hospitality is an…

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Sunset Run Club with Sun Cruiser

On Wednesday, July 8th, I, hailo, went on a run with Dylan Efron! That morning, I got on a plane in Wichita, Kansas, my hometown, and flew through Minneapolis to La Guardia. I called a car straight to Pier 66 where I joined a group of runners, influencers, and journalists to run around three miles…

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Walk Literati

or, Why I'm going to make Wichita walkable When you are a Child ,in school they will show you videos of people like Martin Luther king jr and Albert Einstein and tell you that you can change the world. When you are an adult and you say that you want to change the world they will tell you that you…

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Kismet Launch Party

On July 30th, 2026 I, hailo, went to Church. I went to the big Church on Bowery for the launch of Kismet's latest issue. Photo by Chris Jesu Lee I had walked by the church and eyed it for a very long time. It is beautiful, the way big churches are. Kismet is a literary magazine that explores…

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Watch The Game With Hot Literati

& a Job for Creatives that Pays $80-$110k/yrhello beautiful Hot Literatis around the world I

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Hot Literati At Miu Miu

Last night, I, hailo, went to Miu Miu on 57th st to celebrate Joey King

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Hot Literati in Wichita, Kansas

hello beautiful people of the Hot Literati Universe. For those of you that don

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Hot Literati at Sarah Lawrence

A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of visiting Sarah Lawrence to read an essay and answer questions about Hot Literati and my writing practice. Huge thank you to Kulsum for organizing everything, and for the campus literary group Dark Phrases for hosting, and bringing such good, raw questions.I never thought that a single TikTok in 2022 would lead to Hot Literati, but it

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36 Hours in Plymouth/Provincetown

& Boston. America, I.R.L.IntroHello. I am back. I needed to hide from the internet for a little bit. I did this performance art piece last Halloween as a girl in a glass box. I wrote a story that it was based on. And then I lost the file :o Three hours into the piece, I suddenly wanted to hide. Didn’t want to be looked at. I felt like that for a bit, I think. But hello, I am back.I’ve struggled with depression on and off ever since I was a little girl. Around twelve, I think was the age. I think

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Othership An Obsession Worthy Sauna

As social clubs lose relevance (and members), yet Americans are hungrier for connection now, more than ever before, a new space in the market has opened up to facilitate human connection and intention through locale, hobbies, and shared belief. In March, Robbie Bent– Othership Founder– and I sat in a corner of the central room of the Flatiron location. A place where you wait for a journey to begin or can sit and hang out between a sauna or a cold plunge. He has a great, welcoming energy. He was—

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54 Hours in Miami

without a smartphoneWRITTEN ON DAY 1Otw to the airportI’ve been saying (half joking, half not) for months now that “God has been telling me to go to Miami. I was at a pretty intimate music salon last weekend and I met this wonderful woman who told me, completely unprompted that she split her time between New York and Miami and that she was looking for someone to rent her place for a few remaining days in Miami. So alas, I took the days and booked a flight and called my father to tell him that I

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36 Hours in Princeton, New Jersey

America, I.R.L.photos are all by Hailey CognettiI decided I wanted to go to Princeton the same way I discovered much of the world from my bedroom.A google search.I was a fourteen-year-old sophomore in high school. I’d just gotten back from New York for the first time, terrified that maybe I wasn’t cut out for ballet. I googled “best schools for writing to set a new dream. But in the process, I’d sort of given up on an old one. I’ve realized this recently and am back in ballet. I’ve been taking v

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Sampling New York In 33 Hours Give Or Take

I, Nwakaego, visited New York for the first time two weeks ago, and I still can’t find the right words for the experience. Fun, of course. Stimulating. Boundary-toeing perhaps? Trying to write it all down leads to a long list that doesn

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3 Days in Jacksonville

Hello wonderful people. I am in the back of an airport taxi on the way back to Manhattan from the Newark airport. I spent the last three days in Jacksonville, Florida. I think it’s funny and endearing how much men love Jack Kerouac. I haven’t read any Kerouac, but he was hot, right? I think I get the whole writing about travel thing. It feels like documenting something and sharing it in a way that has real detail and life around it. Like building a map out of words in a way that is always a litt

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6 Hours In Dc

And an A24 ScreeningI

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Cinderella @ the Substack Ball

I went to a Substack event and made it all about me + rules for a proper AugustI started this morning thinking about August. I want a proper August. I want one that is big and adventurous, one where I can hear the birds chirping. I want to splay out on a striped lawn chair and burn the sadness off my back. June was depraved. I spent every day in June crying about something or the other. Leaving my friends, leaving California, leaving higher education, just leaving. I talked about it at first (I