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Kristy Eldredge

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Kristy Eldredge writes for newyorker.com, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, Brooklyn Magazine, RobotButt, and other websites. She writes the humor blog The Laffs Institute and is the writer-director of the video series Robot Secretary, which is about a robot with a bad attitude.
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FUNNY WOMEN #149: Pilgrims Without Internet

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • January 31, 2017
The use of barn animals in unusual poses could be so amusing if transmitted broadly and with a sharp message! But that is not to be, and I must express my feelings, as usual, in cross-stitch.
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The Incompletist

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • June 10, 2015
I was excited to see the New York Times’s announcement that a regular column by the writer Geoff Dyer called “Reading Life” would be appearing in their weekend Book Review. I was even more intrigued and, somehow, encouraged, when eventually it appeared only three times.
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FUNNY WOMEN #123: Cover Letter Template

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • November 11, 2014
I have been responsible for spearheading many cover letters to companies like yours, which stand out from the competition because the openings you have seem as if they might pay a livable salary, to me.
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FUNNY WOMEN #113: BUDDHIST NUN PEMA CHÖDRÖN REWRITES THE CLASSICS

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • January 21, 2014
If we get him, we get him. If we don’t, we don’t. There are probably other white whales out there.
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