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A weekly subscription to personal essays that explore pleasure, along with interviews and recommended reading. The name “Bitten Fruit” is a play on forbidden fruit. Think of this newsletter as an invitation to eat the apple—and to feel full.

About Devon

Devon Fredericksen is an independent journalist and the author of How to Camp in the Woods, among other books. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Hakai, bioGraphic, High Country News, Yes!, Guernica, Indian Country Today, and other magazines. She holds degrees in environmental journalism and Spanish from Western Washington University, and her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

For more information, visit her website.

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