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Kara Cutruzzula

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Writer, lyricist, playwright, etc. A pile of projects: linktr.ee/karacut

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An editor learns a new narrative form: writing musicals

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By Kara Cutruzzula, Mark Armstrong
| Nieman Storyboard Verified
Every story needs an opening number. In journalism, there’s your lede; in musicals, it's the explosive early minutes telling the audience about the world they've entered. My latest chapter began with a simple conversation over coffee and the shocking notion that I didn't need permission to reinvent myself as a writer. I started my career at The Daily Beast during the Tina Brown era, when wild cover stories made news and billionaires threw around digital outlets like Slinkys.
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Gentle January Has Arrived

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By Abigail Koffler, Kara Cutruzzula, Alicia Kennedy Verified, Hunter Harris
| This Needs Hot Sauce
Rabbit rabbit! It’s a new week and a new year. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed over the past few weeks seeing all these shiny recaps of 2023 and will not be making one here. For me, the winter is not my favorite time of year and the pressure to publicly reflect (some of this pressure is self imposed I realize) doesn’t make it better. I do think of the Clique books every time I see an In | Out list—Massie Block’s influence.
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The trick to sticking to a project every day—for years

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By Kara Cutruzzula
| Quartz Verified
It’s your first day at a new job. You’ve already chatted twice with IT, forgotten the name of the third coworker on your left, and debated the appropriateness of dipping out for an afternoon coffee. Then a little voice whispers: You will stay in this job for six years, three months, and two days. Excuse me? Six years (and three months and two days) is a good chunk of time when measuring a career—maybe an overwhelming amount of time.
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