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Emily Flake
Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, performer, and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of, most recently, That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug. Her work appears regularly in New Yorker, the Nib, Weekly Humorist, and many other publications.
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April 28, 2025I’m Tommy Westphall from the Beloved 1980s Hospital Drama St. Elsewhere, and I Want RFK Jr. the Fuck Out of My Snow Globe
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November 18, 2024I’m a Guardrail, and I Don’t Know What the Fuck You People Want from Me
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September 27, 2024A Letter to Indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams from Joey, King of the Rats
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January 9, 2024An Open Letter to Jeremy Allen White Regarding His Recent Calvin Klein Ad
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May 3, 2023How White Men Fight, According to Tucker Carlson
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March 28, 2022I’m Timothée Chalamet, and This Was Supposed to Be My Controversial Oscars Night
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October 6, 2021Well, Now I Don’t Even Know if I Want This Kidney Anymore
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June 3, 2021Why Do You Want to Unsubscribe? WHY?!
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September 15, 2020Why I’m Leaving This Plane of Existence
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May 18, 2020I Was In Charge of the Deck Chairs On the Titanic, and They Absolutely Did Need Rearranging
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January 27, 2020I Am Quitting Exclamation Points
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November 8, 2019From One Parent to Another: Thank You, T.I.