Welcome to our bi-weekely news roundup! Greetings Lit Magtators, How, you are probably wondering, is John Kucera these days? You all remember John Kucera, right? The lit mag world’s serial plagiarist whom we discussed here? Well, if you’re anything like me, you are well aware that Mr. Kucera desperately needs $20. Here’s the most recent of a handful of emails I’ve gotten this month. I’m not the only one getting these.

I spent the past couple days reading and rereading one of my favorite poets, Louise Glück. Glück died last week. My friend Clay Risen did the lovely obituary in The New York Times. “If her work rarely offered redemption, let alone joy, it did seek solace, if only in the acceptance of the world as it is—Achilles’ triumph, in her view, was his realization of his own mortality. And in mortality and death, she felt, one might find the hope of rebirth.

There is no better reality dating show than Love Is Blind, where two dozen-ish single people sit in windowless Target-decorated rooms and Buzzfeed quiz their way into a quick marriage and inevitable divorce. The show’s participants can’t see one another until after they have gotten engaged, so all the turnoffs you’d notice on a first date don’t come until you’re already in the middle of planning a wedding. With its location-based casting, the show stumbles into some ethnographic research (meaning: of course the Dallas season was the craziest).

In this blog I’d like to try to address a common concern, i.e. having a relatively low HRV in absolute terms. It is only normal to get worried considering the amount of misinformation out there, and our poor understanding of what different values might mean. The first thing we need to realize is that there is great uncertainty on the topic, which - if anything - highlights how being on the lower side of the spectrum doesn’t determine our destiny.

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