Gerald Marzorati on How He Learned to Love Retirement

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Gerald Marzorati on How He Learned to Love Retirement

July 13, 2025

Suzy Weiss

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‘People stop caring what you think about most everything, which, in its own way, is a form of freedom—if you can understand it that way.’

Read Gerald’s essay, “How to Have a Happy Retirement,” and Joe Nocera’s introduction to Ancient Wisdom, a new series from The Free Press.

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Suzy Weiss

Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.

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