This is a newsletter about the radical act of enjoying oneself.
Keywords include: decadence, pleasure, agency, sophistication, freedom, joy, vintage caftans, and the perfect red lip.
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Why is this a Good Decision?
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.
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 alone.
“She had seen the very words of the Old World seduction and had even drunk its bad waters, which were supposed to be fatal to innocent virgins, but here she still was. She’d lived to tell the tale.” Sex and Rage, Eve Babitz
What You Get When Pay For It
Paid subscribers will have access to What’s Up, Pussycat? Q&A’s, select interviews; and recommendations. Plus, a discount on my Paris guides.
Brain Trust subscribers will have access to me! Four times a year. This tier is set up to compliment the consulting services I offer. Do you have an idea you need to talk through? Are you looking for advice on a project or potential project? That’s what this is for. You will have access to quarterly, private, one-hour inclusive consulting Zoom sessions with me to discuss whatever projects you may be working on or are considering working on. 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.
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.
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.
