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You may have read that Lauren Oyler took a Goop cruise, which she wrote about for the May issue of Harper’s. I don’t know that I have an opinion about the piece overall, though I do think that the self-awareness isn’t self-awareing like it used to. If, for example, one thinks that cruises should be illegal, as Oyler says she does, one might own the hypocrisy of going on one for a paycheck just a mite more strenuously.

But I can’t begrudge Oyler that paycheck, especially these days. Anyhow, the part where she and her fellow cruisers encounter Gwyneth in the flesh approaches captivating, as do the details from the author’s interrupted personal life “engaging in polyamory and doing unanticipated quantities of drugs”—said details being why she was primed for a luxury cruise in the first place:

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