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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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The Popular Alternative

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" If you have the card in the sleeve, why do you want to see the card art again?"

in conversation with Night Gallery's Josh Zoerner. 

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Magic merch

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A dispatch from Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields music festival.

goes Mark Fisher mode on Depop, Taco Bell, and Rookie Mag aesthetics.

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Brand-activated riot grrrls

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From the book OBSERVER by Nicholas Russell. Copyright © 2026. Reprinted by permission of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. 

has written about the [branding of A24](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/05/the-popular-alternative) and [NEON](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/06/the-state-of-neon) for Dirt. OBSERVER is his first novel.

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Field trip to the desert

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Very personal fairytales from a mother to her young son.

is the author of *[Disenchanted](https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/disenchanted)*, an essay collection out September 22, 2026 from Autofocus Books.

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Once upon a time

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A philosophy of the now.

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Regretting the future

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An AI retail experiment gone wild.

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Wet Claude be shoppin’

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Is Olivia Wilde doing male narcissist autofiction?

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Wilde at heart

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How would you spend it? 

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So there's one night a year single people are allowed to have sex...

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