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Libby Watson

Los Angeles
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Pure Life | Kurt Woerpel

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By Libby Watson, Jessa Crispin Verified, S. C. Cornell
| The Baffler Verified
I caught the first wave of Covid in New York City in April 2020. By May of that year my hands had swelled up and turned bright red, and my shoulders ached so much that I couldn’t sleep through the night without waking up crying in pain. I wasn’t sure what was happening and could only hope it was temporary: The guidance at the time was to avoid medical offices and hospitals unless you were dying. All I could do was wait for things to get back to “normal,” both for the world and for my own body.
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I Traveled 800 Miles To Eat Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza At Criss Angel’s Breakfast, Lunch, And Pizza

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By Libby Watson
| Defector Verified
When I was a very depressed British teenager, I had an unhealthy fascination with America. I found a way to love its contradictions, to explain away the obvious sins not by excusing them directly but by focusing on America’s enormous size, its capacity to hold infinite different types of people, and its proliferation of true weirdos.
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How America Failed the Unhoused

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By Libby Watson
| The Nation Verified
Books & the Arts / June 10, 2025 The Other Americans Where can the overworked and unhoused go? How America Failed the Unhoused Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor. Ad Policy Atlanta during a heat wave in 2022. (Dustin Chambers / Getty Images) This article appears in the July/August 2025 issue. Americans are unusually preoccupied with work.
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