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Jamie Hood

Jamie Hood
Jamie Hood is the author of how to be a good girl, one of Vogue’s Best Books of 2020, and regards, marcel, a monthly newsletter on Proust and other miscellany. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Bookforum, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, The Drift, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.


Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

Jamie Hood In Defense of the Earnest, the Sentimental, and Those Who Still Need to Put Their Trauma Into Words
March 25, 2025  By Jamie Hood
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