Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York and is the author of the upcoming How to Be a Person in the World.

“I don’t give a shit if I succeed or fail or what I do next, I just want to do things that are strange and not sound bitey. I don’t want to be polished. I want to be such a wreck that no one will ever say ‘let’s put her on her own talk show.’”

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Show Notes:

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Havrilesky on Longform

[01:00] "What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage" (New York • Feb 2016)

[19:00] "’Mad Men’ Finale Recap: ‘The Moon Belongs to Everyone’" (Salon • May 2014)

[20:00] "‘Mad Men’ Cartoon Countdown: The Seventh- and Sixth-to-Last Episodes" (New Yorker • Apr 2015)

[26:00] "Chicks ‘n’ Shit" (Suck • Dec 1995)

[30:00] Havrilesky’s Filler Archive (Suck • 2001)

[36:00] Havrilesky’s Ask Polly Archive at The Awl

[36:00] Ask Polly archive at New York

[44:00] "Katy Perry and the Fear of a Female Planet" (New York • Oct 2015)

[49:00] Mystery Show

[57:00] How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life (Doubleday • 2016)

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