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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: “New Yorker” Covers and My Peculiar Yearning for a City I Already Have

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker magazine covers capture something both true and elusive about the city, by distilling New York in single images, so that the place feels simultaneously familiar and out of reach.

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0:35.9

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0:39.0

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0:43.8

because you probably don't hear this enough, thank you. Thanks for always showing up and doing

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Lemonada.

1:47.7

I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.

1:50.9

In my household, we still get many old-fashioned paper magazines.

1:55.5

I love magazines, though they do tend to stack up faster than I can read them.

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