Welcome to the Rich Text newsletter and podcast. You CAN sit with us.

We’re Claire Fallon + Emma Gray!

We are writers, culture obsessives and generally neurotic 30-somethings. We also co-host the podcast “Love to See It with Emma and Claire” (formerly known as “Here To Make Friends”), a feminist podcast about reality dating shows, rom-coms, and what they say about us all. We cut our teeth working for a decade as enterprise reporters and editors on HuffPost’s Culture, Women’s and Books desks, and you can find our work in publications like The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, MSNBC and Vice.

Why should you sign up to get another email?

We love to consider America’s favorite reality dating franchises as both a guilty pleasure and a complex, layered text full of artifacts that capture our weird social norms. That’s what we want this newsletter to do with, well, everything. Rich Text is a space for the indulgent and the incisive, for witty and wistful explorations of the cultural, the personal, and the political.

We share hot and cold takes on culture, book recommendations and reviews, and other stuff we love to love (and love to hate). Paid subscribers get podcast episodes on everything from motherhood and adult friendship, to reality dating shows and scripted dramas, to the trauma of low-rise jeans returning — as well as access to in-app subscriber chat threads!

Everyone who subscribes gets our weekly cultural and shopping recommendations. Come for the high-brow analysis of television, stay for the skin care and loungewear recs.

Join us on this ~journey~. We’re already falling for you.

xo

Claire & Emma