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Harmony
On Brian Wilson and enjoying things you’re bad at
Feb 6 • Kaya Oakes
The parable of the barnyard
In which I hate social media, yet again
Jan 30 • Kaya Oakes
The Depressed Person
On David Foster Wallace, friendship, and never crying at work
Jan 21 • Kaya Oakes
Against ambition
From 2024: We should all stop making lists to prove our worth
Dec 29, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
What we owe one another
On reading as debt, and a hiatus
Dec 14, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
Lying with the wolf
On fallow times
Nov 24, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
Five career paths for writers
2025 edition
Nov 14, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
Waterloo Sunset's Fine
On the erasure of women in music
Nov 6, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
Emotional Russian roulette
On trauma dumping and visible illness
Oct 25, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
It's just not for me
Liberate yourself from the tyranny of the zietgeist
Oct 13, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
More life
On two years in cancerland
Oct 3, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
Maybe you don't need to write a book
Or, at least, you don't need to feel like you failed if yours doesn't sell
Sep 27, 2025 • Kaya Oakes
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Writing at the intersections of gender, culture, education, politics, cancer and religion... and many other things.
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