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Senior editor for newsletters @theatlantic. Previously @nplusonemag, @tabletmag | Wesleyan University '17
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How to Find Joy on a Quiet Day in Original

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By Isabel Fattal Verified
| The Atlantic Daily Newsletter Verified
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. In his 2022 essay on how to want less, Arthur C. Brooks recalls a line from Ralph Waldo Emerson about the dangers of thinking that a new shiny thing or place will fix life’s problems.
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The Philosophy of the Out-of-Office Email

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By Isabel Fattal Verified
| The Atlantic Daily Newsletter Verified
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. For some people, an out-of-office message is a simple one-line email. For others, it’s an opportunity to make a grand statement about the relationship between work and life. In 2018, Marina Koren reported on the emailers who auto-delete all new messages while they’re on vacation.
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The Hardest Things to Say to One Another

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By Isabel Fattal Verified
| The Atlantic Daily Newsletter Verified
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Recently, Russell Shaw realized that he had texted his kids the same two words—Too loud—133 times since 2020. “The backstory to each, I’m sure, was relatively consistent,” he writes.
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