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The Tamagotchi That Won’t Die
A Decade of Instagram and Self-Consumption From Dagny Tepper, Mommy of Pilot Magazine <3 I’ve decided to start this think piece by...
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Aug 23, 2024


Find Yourself Online (stop looking)
I tried to make my first Youtube video around 10. It was a hair tutorial that my sweet, archival father definitely still has tucked away...
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Aug 7, 2024


30. Little deaths/Little delights
Everyone say, good morning Victoria Hi hi, Happy Sunday (Monday?Tuesday?). These past three weeks have been some of the most exciting...
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Aug 4, 2024


Jonathan Haidt on the Thought Daughter
There is a new character in the Hot Literati digital universe. His name is Jonathan and he ♡s (re)Cognition Summer. You'll be seeing a...
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Aug 3, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer Syllabus
The following are books and readings that I think really capture and tackle and confront some of the social, philosophical, and societal...
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Jul 13, 2024


Hungover Musings, Summer Flings
26. Little Deaths/Delights For better or worse, or better and worse, life always feels like some sort of dream to me. This comes up a lot...
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Jul 7, 2024


(re)COGNITION SUMMER: … Into the Anaxagoric Emerald
by Anderson I remember my future now. I am Caribbean royalty and all the big city is my proxy throne. I wear the waves on my back like a...
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Jul 2, 2024


The World has its own Music
and God, his own schedule Music has sounded so wonderful lately, because I have been listening to less. I've been watching the sunset in...
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Jul 1, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 2
Defanging Big Tech’s Frankenstein There’s a recurring ad that I’ve been getting since I graduated high school. It first showed up on...
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Jun 26, 2024


Hello, Hailo
How I found belonging in Hot Literati And when I say “Hailo”, I don’t just mean Hailo herself (although, yes…hello to the curly hair and...
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Jun 24, 2024


The People According to Hot Literati #1
We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.
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Jun 21, 2024


Rules for (re)Cognition Summer
Writing this on two hours of sleep, a biscoff cookie, and an 8 pm cup of coffee, but I know you all love an arbitrary seasonal set of...
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Jun 21, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 1
The Funky Bar Agenda
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Jun 18, 2024


Are you Verified?
Mr. Chalamet (yes, he's back...) was telling me about "Tinder in real life" the other day -- a video series in which one guest "swipes"...
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Jun 14, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer: Reconnecting with the Subway Car
Do me a favor. Next time you’re out running errands, existing in a liminal space, or in the coffee line, look around. Look with...
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Jun 13, 2024


Making the impossible choice.
ALIVE GIRL DIARIES: WEEK 0 by Ananya For the modern literati; join me as I test out new strategies each week to reclaim my cognition and...
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Jun 10, 2024


5 Dates, One Week (Again)
Hi Literatis. I hope you all have had a wonderful week and weekend. I have had what I like to call a "memory-dense" one. I started using...
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Jun 9, 2024


On the Importance of Digital Boundaries
Welcome to (re)Cognition Summer, with Hot Literati. Let's get your mind back, baby. Unless you're new here, you know I think about the...
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Jun 6, 2024


Moonlight Bites
I’m a baker now (manifesting)! I was going to post the recipe by itself, but I wanted to share the why as well. Since the why is a lot of...
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Jun 3, 2024


A Summer Manifesto
Hi all <3 I'm writing to you from my neighborhood restaurant. I used to come in here a couple of times a week. They noticed when I...
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Jun 1, 2024
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