Friendship Roundup #18

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Welcome to another friendship roundup!

If you like friendship topics, you’ll enjoy my podcast, Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship, which you can find anywhere you listen to podcasts.

The latest episode of Dear Nina was about:


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Friendship Articles and More

I love doing these friendship roundups! I see so many friendship-related things, either because I find them myself or people send them to me. I’m going to keep sharing them on my site twice a month.

Articles About Friendship I’ve Liked Lately

We loved talking about this one in my Facebook group:

There’s a Growing Crisis in Our Social Lives. Is the Cure This Simple? (On the power of just hanging out.) by Dan Kois in Slate

‘Best Friends’ Are a Surprsingly Recent Phenomonon by Jaya Saxena in The Atlantic 

Dear Therapist: I Don’t Know How to Help My Best Friend Through Her Divorce by Lori Gottlieb in The Atlantic

TV Shows & Books

  • I’m loving Shrinking on AppleTV.
  • I’m liking, not loving Dear Edward on AppleTV and The Last of Us on HBO. The Last of Us is so good, but not always pleasant to watch.
  • I am loving the memoir The Unlikely Village of Eden by Emma Nadler. Emma will be a guest on the show soon!
  • Reminder to signup to discuss Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow with me on April 17th.

 


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Nina Badzin hosts the podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014, co-leads the writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis, and reviews 30+ books a year on her website.

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HI, I’M NINA BADZIN. I’m a writer fascinated by the dynamics of friendship, and I’ve been answering anonymous advice questions on the topic since 2014. I now also answer them on my podcast, Dear Nina! I’m a creative writing instructor at ModernWell in Minneapolis, a freelance writer and editor, and an avid reader who reviews 50 books a year. Welcome to my site! 

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DEAR NINA: Conversations About Friendship is a podcast and newsletter about the ups and downs of adult friendship. I’m the host, Nina Badzin, a Minneapolis-based writer who accepted a position as a friendship advice columnist in 2014 and never stopped. DEAR NINA, the podcast, started in 2021, and has been referenced in The Wall Street JournalThe Washington PostTime Magazine, The GuardianThe Chicago TribuneThe Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere

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