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Jess McHugh @MchughJess
Joined June 2014
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Jess McHugh@MchughJess
18 Jul 2022
We’re back in the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Y’ALL !!! Surreal to see my mug in @nytimesbooks, as AMERICANON was selected as one of 6 new paperbacks to read!! An honor. So much so that I dressed up for the occasion 🤵‍♀️
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Study Hall@studyhallxyz
Jan 26
We caught up with @MchughJess about the essential of profile writing! studyhall.xyz/free-newslette…

The Essentials of Profile Writing: A Q&A with Jess McHugh | Study Hall

The Essentials of Profile Writing: A Q&A with Jess McHugh

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Noema Magazine
@NoemaMag
5 Nov 2025
“Like the Biblical Noah loading pairs of animals onto his ark, scientists & archivists are salvaging fragile bits of our world that are at risk of disappearing forever.” —@McHughJess noemamag.com/the-ark-builder…

The Ark-Builders Saving Fragile Bits Of Our World | NOEMA

Scientists and archivists are expanding their approaches to preservation — from freezing endangered species’ cells to encoding ancient languages onto disks sent into space.

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Asking someone's age is a pretty standard question to ask someone when interviewing them for an article, but I kind of love how many people respond HOW OLD ARE YOU?!
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cinesthetic.
@TheCinesthetic
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The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic
30 Apr 2024
France is fiercely protective of its landmarks, food, and other forms of cultural heritage. Now the French government is hoping citizens can think of wildlife as “patrimoine,” too, @MchughJess writes: theatlantic.com/science/arch…

A Uniquely French Approach to Environmentalism

The biodiversity police might just work.

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Serge lost his father to Auschwitz and Beate’s father voted for Hitler, but they met on a Paris subway platform and fell in love just the same. They traveled the world hunting Nazis. This is the story of their courageous fight for the truth. New work! everand.com/audiobook/711338…

Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made...

The inspiring, heart-thumping true story of the couple who brought some of the Holocaust’s most notorious Nazis to justice. Almost sixty years later, they’re still at it, and their work is more...

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Jess McHugh@MchughJess
11 Mar 2024
A hospital for wild animals in Paris takes care of 7,000 animals per year, including many tiny hedgehogs, like this one! It's the most feel-good story I've ever written Please read! @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Wild on the Seine: Animal hospital tackles Paris’s wildlife casualties

Climate change and expanding cities mean more wild animals are clashing with the urban environment. This hospital picks up the pieces.

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The only thing that could bring me back to Twitter was Henry Kissinger's death, and wow some of you did not disappoint
Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
30 Nov 2023
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies More: trib.al/g3L1J4G trib.al/g3L1J4G
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Despite nearly a full decade of sending pitches to editors, and understanding HOW READING WORKS, this is me, 0.3 seconds after sending a pitch, refreshing my inbox, hoping for an instant YES

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Nothing like the anxiety of trying to remember what you were anxious about
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Finally met my neighbor and he said "nice to finally put a face to everything I hear"... Which is hands-down the last thing I wanted to hear
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"The human condition is inconvenient, and Americans appreciate a quick and tidy fix." Great piece in @TheAtlantic by @kelkord and honored to have a little shoutout for Americanon! theatlantic.com/technology/a…

The Goopification of AI

A new generation of chatbots is poised to become the next frontier of self-help—and could reveal the truth behind Americans’ obsession with lifestyle gurus.

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RT @shermanelis: The man who killed Jordan Neely wasn’t protecting himself. He was empowered by a cultural movement that has normalized reg…
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"No Freedom Without Equality" — Louise Michel
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Still waitiing on Courtney Love's Rock and Roll Hall of fame nom...
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I wish we could collectively pick a day of week to send each other emails, and then the rest of the time we just don't...
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This entire story is beyond adorable, but the ring-bearer pig being lured by popcorn has got to be my favorite detail: nytimes.com/2023/04/14/style…
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Everything about this story is my favorite thing—the number of times I gasped out loud is too numerous to count !! brava @dodaistewart nytimes.com/2023/04/14/nyreg…

Rat Horror Stories the New N.Y.C. Rat Czar Needs to Hear (Published 2023)

New Yorkers have encountered rodents in toilets, on trains, in bed. And that’s not all.

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