This f**king job.

There are three types of newsletter issues here at This F**king Job:

  1. Issues about how political journalism even works — what goes through our heads as we wander political rallies, as we drive around Iowa/New Hampshire/etc. in rental cars, as we write our stories. Fairly often, I find myself muttering, “This fucking job…” to myself as I crank out the gems. Hence the title of this newsletter.

  2. Issues about gender politics, and especially masculinity — the posturing that so many of our dudes (and sometimes nondudes) do to prove to American voters that they are worth voting for.

  3. Issues that are my experimental essay attempts, because alas, I am a journalist who also considers herself a capital-W Writer.

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Covering politics for NPR. Sometimes reviewing books. RTs sung to Camptown Ladies. Want me to write for your publication? I don't blame you. Respond to one of my newsletters or comment on a post and we'll get cracking.