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Alanna Okun

Alanna Okun
Alanna Okun is a deputy editor at Vox and the author of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater, an essay collection about crafting available now from Flatiron/Macmillan. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, NPR, BuzzFeed, Apartment Therapy, and The Hairpin, among others, and she's appeared on TODAY, Good Morning America, and many other local and national TV and radio programs. Her second book is forthcoming from Abrams in 2020.


The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

Alanna Okun on Kassia St. Clair's History of Fabric
November 27, 2019  By Alanna Okun
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On the Fine Art of Unraveling

The Hardest Part of Making Anything is Knowing When to Start Over
March 27, 2018  By Alanna Okun
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