Hater Nation's 2024 Recapitulation

This year, I got a new job at Slate, where I wrote about Brad Pitt’s reputational laundering and Kamala Harris’ rage, about Tony P.’s unbearable but infectious sincerity and about post-election grief. In other places, I wrote about divorce for The Cut, about cancer and Indian Idol for New York Times Magazine, and joined Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me to be needlessly prickly on public radio.

I helped produce and featured in a documentary called Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, which was based on some reporting I did around the company and its CEO, Joe Francis. (You can watch all three parts on Peacock right now, which I obviously think you should have already done, but I’m a forgiving person.) I also wrote about the documentary for Slate, and interviewed our fearless director, Jamila Wignot, for Scamfluencers.

Speaking of which, Scamfluencers’ incredible producers and writers and fact-checkers brought you 39 new episodes this year. That is a lot of content, all for free, and all by people who often have more than one job! Please consider this the next time you want to leave a review complaining about reruns, you child, and enjoy our archives until we return for our third (!) year running.

My second book, SUCKER PUNCH, will be out in March. Now is a good time to preorder it, in the US or in Canada, for you or maybe someone you really wish would just get that divorce already. We all have that friend, and if you don’t, that means you’re that friend.

Calendars are fake. It’s tomorrow even when it’s still today. You’re already behind; you’re already ahead.