Welcome to self-taught, a syllabus project for a girl who loves to research

Looking for a place to get started? Here are my favorite pieces from the four years of operating this newsletter, listed earliest to most recent.

I’m a girl who loves comedy and family sagas, low-brow romance thrills and 19th century literary classics. Any given weekend, I’m usually at someone else’s wedding. I’m an author of a book of essays (Perf), and I’m writing a novel.

I’m mildly paranoid about being on time to whatever life event is coming down the road, hence an obsession with recreation...