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Jessica Pan


Jessica Pan is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, New York magazine, Elle, Vice, and more. She has a BA in psychology from Brown University and a masters in journalism from RMIT. Jess is also the author of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes. She previously worked as a TV reporter and magazine editor in Beijing. She writes about working at a tiny indie bookstore in London in her Substack newsletter, It’ll Be Fun, They Said.

Books by Jessica Pan

It'll Be Fun, They Said

From the beloved author of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come and voice behind the wildly popular Substack, It’ll Be Fun, They Said, comes a joyful, honest, and laugh-out-loud exploration of what it really means to be happy in an age of anxiety - and the unlikely places joy shows up when you go looking for it.

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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come

One hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting. Jess Pan goes out on behalf of all the introverts to answer the question: is it really true that extroverts have all the fun?

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