Rude but Charming

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Narrative thought pieces and personal essays that are so descriptive, insightful, expanding, and hilarious that they've become their own live show.

Rude but Charming exists to entertain you, to make you (re)think, to see in a new way, and to show you exceptional storytelling for a mere $10/month.

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Rude celebrates the art of the essay, a pause in the busyness of daily tasks and a break from the cacophony of mainstream news, social media, and the outside world.

Allow yourself ten minutes or so, once a week, to read something clever and entertaining that feeds your mind and satiates your curiosity.

In the tradition of Montaigne, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Annie Dillard, Christopher Hitchens, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Fran Lebowitz, and even David Sedaris, (a few of my inspirers) I offer my humble contribution.

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-Amy

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