This is a newsletter about the radical act of enjoying oneself.
Keywords include: pleasure, agency, sophistication, freedom, decadence, joy, vintage caftans, and the perfect red lip. Also: history, media, and from time to time, politics. We contain multitudes.
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“I loved both of your memoirs, and I think you are an important voice celebrating women living the lives of their choosing. I also appreciate that you consider both serious and frivolous matters—often in the same post! “
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I complain constantly about the lack of narratives around women’s lives, particularly women outside marriage and motherhood, and this feels like one, small, universally enjoyable way to fix that.
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Good Decisions is smart, engaged, fun, chic, and full to the brim with agency, and a sense of adventure. It’s the newsletter version of biking alone through empty Paris at midnight in a vintage green jumpsuit under a full moon. Or taking yourself to the Grand Central Oyster Bar with a copy of Middlemarch for some oysters and a martini with a mean sidecar. It’s knowing how to pour a proper hot bath. It’s for lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. And also every other hair color and body type belonging to people who understand true chicness is the ability to enjoy oneself, by oneself and who can also hold a fierce discussion about the state of the world we are all living in.
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"I signed up for this newsletter after reading I am Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself. It was wonderful to read about an unapologetic single woman who travels for pleasure. Maybe we can finally move on from women only traveling for their healing. Thank you."
In my role as collaborator, I've worked on New York Times best-selling books. I've worked with established journalists, and debut authors on both non-fiction proposals and full manuscripts for Big Five publishers. For more than a decade I co-owned and ran a professional women’s community called TheLi.st. TheLi.st was conceived of as the lady version of the Old Boy’s club. We hosted conferences, events, put out newsletters, published an ebook, and advised on media opportunities.
Who is Glynnis?
Who indeed. I’m the author of three books including the memoirs I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure and No One Tells You This. I wrote, produced, and hosted WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, for iHeart Media. I’ve contributed to numerous collections and I write this newsletter!
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself was named to TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. No One Tells You This (S&S, 2018), was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times, and the CBC, and was a 2019 New York Times 'Paperback Row' pick. WILDER was an official Tribeca Festival 2023 Selection.
"Pleasure advocacy."
My writing has been featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, The Cut, New York Daily News, Town & Country, The Daily Beast, GEN, and ELLE, among others. I started out as a media and politics reporter for The Huffington Post, and later Business Insider, and covered the 2008 conventions for Playboy magazine, providing me with the greatest opening line I ever hope to have.
Along with Susanna Schrobsdorff, I run The Blue Hour Paris writing workshop.
In 2012, I co-founded TheLi.st with Rachel Sklar. TheLi.st was acquired in 2020.
I live in New York City, but have an open agreement with Paris.
