Archive - The Life and Errors of Molly Young

Book recommendations I: Thrillers, killers, stalkers, surfers

Plus the REAL (not shocking) story of what happened to Read Like the Wind

6 hrs ago

May 2025

Extremely spectacular and incredibly sylvan

Let's check in on Switzerland

May 8

The mystery of the coffee cups

A Finland adventure

May 2

March 2025

Funny --> Troubling --> Doesn’t Matter

A conversation with Samantha Harvey. Audience members getting cheeky.

Mar 22

December 2024

Touch the cheese

A factory visit. 19th-century forearms. Minions by Prada.

Dec 8, 2024

November 2024

The Nature of all Homecomings

An essay by Molly Young featuring oblivion, a stranger reading Sally Rooney, and a flight to San Fransisco.

Published on Cluny Journal • Nov 25, 2024

September 2024

Crumbs of news, announcements

Sep 28, 2024

Letter to child Thelma on an afternoon in late summer

Sep 13, 2024

June 2024

9 insights of mixed quality

Jun 15, 2024

May 2024

Length training

The natty method of getting a jacked attention span. Dumbed-down Nietzsche. Babygazing.

May 31, 2024

March 2024

The mad perfumer of Parma

Plus: where to find information about the presence of odor in the novels of Émile Zola

Mar 27, 2024

Molly and the Homunculina

Allow me to introduce you to... my mysterious companion

Mar 10, 2024

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