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The Art of the Joyful Tearjerker

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By Hillary Kelly
| The Atlantic
Last fall, while leaving a critic’s screening of the film Hamnet, I was confronted just outside the door by the production company’s chirpy PR handler. “How was it?” she asked, as if the rivers of mascara streaming down my cheeks weren’t a clear enough signal. “Oh God,” I blurted out, before turning heel toward the bathroom. How to properly describe the garment-rending despair I’d felt in those 125 minutes? I had known what I was in for.
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The Art of the Joyful Tearjerker

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By Hillary Kelly
| Flipboard
What Co-Writing a Book on Shakespeare Taught Us About Marriage and Parenthood There was, last fall, a lot pulling us to see the movie Hamnet—the Shakespearean subject matter, the caliber of the actors, the breathless …
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Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story

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By Hillary Kelly
| The Atlantic
This is the story that has been most commonly told about Brooke Nevils: While she was on assignment for NBC at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the Today show host Matt Lauer joined her and his co-host Meredith Vieira at their hotel bar for drinks. Afterward, she ended up in Lauer’s room. There, she later alleged, he took advantage of their power imbalance and her inebriation to pressure her into nonconsensual sex.
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