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

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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Hi, I'm Nina

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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I send an email once or twice a month with the latest friendship letters, podcast episodes, book reviews, recipes, and more.

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