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Dorie Chevlen @doriechevlen
Joined May 2014
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If you just received a super-high heating bill, I would love to hear about it (for a NYT real estate story). Send me a DM!
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finally put my English degree to use: nytimes.com/2026/02/03/reale…

They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately

Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin.

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I went LONG on The Summer I Turned Pretty for @LAReviewofBooks — please let me know all your takes because 2k words deep, I think I've still only scratched the surface! lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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20 Sep 2025
"There’s no chance she could say what any reasonable viewer of the show should be advocating for: All of these characters should leave each other alone." @doriechevlen on the limits of love in "The Summer I Turned Pretty." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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.@doriechevlen on American Contemporary Ballet’s “Euterpides/Serenade”: "It’s a triumphant piece of music, and yet eerily familiar." lareviewofbooks.org/short-ta…
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you should be able to spend your HSA on sports bras
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wrote about the first competitive sperm race and probably the end of humanity as we know it: slate.com/life/2025/05/sperm…

A Literal Child Is Trying to Fix the “Male Fertility Crisis.” His Solution Is So Chaotic That It...

The world’s first sperm race marks the beginning of a new sport, and also maybe the end of mankind?

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Los Angeles Review of Books@LAReviewofBooks
14 Mar 2025
In our upcoming LARB Quarterly, we’re feeling the pressure. With all-new cultural criticism, personal essays, field reporting, short fiction, and poetry, and more, we’re zeroed in on the pressures we face—and just how much we can take. Join today: lareviewofbooks.org/membersh…
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12 Feb 2025
"As a critic, but probably more so as a Jew, I am immediately skeptical of any dance 'inspired' by the Holocaust." Dorie Chevlen attends Los Angeles Ballet's "Memoryhouse." lareviewofbooks.org/short-ta…
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🚨GREAT JOB ALERT🚨 (writing for Wirecutter rules, AND Caitlin is one of my favorite editors on Earth❤️)
Caitlin McGarry@Caitlin_McGarry
11 Feb 2025
Exciting news: I’m hiring! @wirecutter is looking for a Senior Writer to cover phones, tablets, and wearables. You’ll write guides and short-form articles about the technology we rely on every day. You’ll report to me. Dream job imo. Questions? DM me! nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co…
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I'm thinking about launching an advice column UH OH DORIE but will enough of you guys subscribe, and moreover, write in with your PROBLEMS? (otherwise i'll be stuck writing about my own problems, which are fascinating but will become tiresome eventually)
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wrote about electric toothbrushes and humanity's ceaseless march toward death nytimes.com/wirecutter/revie…

Brushing My Teeth With This Electric Brush Is Boring and Easy. Which Is Great, Actually.

The Philips Sonicare 4100 has relieved the existential tedium of my daily toothbrushing practice for the past three years.

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I know that the WONDER of air travel is decades past, but here I am in the aisle seat with every window blind pulled close?! When we are literally soaring through the heavens??
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not to mention here I am TWEETING from the SKY?! eating "everything bagel spice" pretzels?! my ancestors would shit their pants trying to understand even one of these concepts
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marc tracy@marcatracy
20 Oct 2024
Carrying forward the stories of the Holocaust is now mainly the province of the third generation, that is, the grandkids (and related) of survivors. And they have their own way of doing it: nytimes.com/2024/10/20/arts/…

The Holocaust’s Grandchildren Are Speaking Now (Published 2024)

Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

nytimes.com
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one of my favorite writer pals on one of my favorite horror flicks 🖤🖤🖤
Rafaela Bassili@sallyjaygorce
18 Sep 2024
For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the demonic teen girl canon via Jennifer's Body –– one of my favorite movies & an enduring classic theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
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feeling patriotic (crying on the phone with my healthcare provider over a billing issue)
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not a joke, just being real for once on the timeline: I was rooting for Bennifer with my whole heart and I feel nothing but sadness over the dissolution of their marriage
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the disappointing truth is, no one ever has nor ever will "break the internet." still, I pray every day that they might
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what if steve jobs just started wearing those turtlenecks to cover up a really big hickey
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