A Private-ish Party for the 100<sup>th</sup> Edition of Famous People
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Lizzie: The stakes have never been higher than they are right now. This—what you’re reading right now—is the 100th issue, edition, whatever you want to call it, of Famous People. Together, Kaitlyn and I have sent out 100 emails to an audience of varying size and interest levels about things we’ve done over the course of the last five years. It’s kind of amazing that we haven’t stopped yet, since, before we started writing this for The Atlantic, we had received very little encouragement to continue from whomever we were writing it for. I guess that’s because we were mostly writing it for ourselves.
Obviously 100 Famous Peoples is a good reason to celebrate—and we do need reasons to celebrate, so that we can keep writing this newsletter. So last weekend, we threw a party. Some attendees did point out that, at the time of the party, we had only published 99 newsletters, so maybe the party was premature. But maybe it was perfectly on theme, so that we could write our 100th newsletter about our 100th event.
Kaitlyn: I explained to many at the party: This party both is Famous People 100, and it will be Famous People 100. At breakfast the following morning with Katie and Stephanie and Tamar: It was Famous People 100, and now, as Lizzie and I write about it, it is Famous People 100. Get it?
Admittedly, were random belated recaps of the first season of , due to a pandemic. But the rest of them have been about me and Lizzie and those who are “famous” to us. I’m not going to push you too
