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The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization.

on an understanding of athletes as data, not people. This essay also appears in STRUNG: Issue 001, available [online](https://court-date.com/strung-print) and at Iconic Magazines in NYC.

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"Why isn’t mutual aid and community part of the discussion of what it means to be a writer now?"

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Working writers vs. the brownstone leisure class

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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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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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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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