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Vegetation

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Crying in Luke’s Lobster

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Requiem for the DVD menu

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Grizzly man

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Bad waitress

Blood smeared over mouth, still from Dogtooth (2009) 

The Question of U

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Remember when Tumblrs turned into picture books?

on a strange period in 2000s culture—when a popular Tumblr could become a coffee table book.  

Look at This F*cking Hipster by Joe Mande, 2010. 

Look at This Fucking Hipster

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The name of the rose. 

and Chelsea Hodson discuss Hodson's new independent press. 

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Betty Draper psychoanalysis

The community has been psychoanalysis pilled.

on why everyone is into psychoanalysis right now.

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The impossible profession

Novel as meme page

The writer as curator.

on novel-specific moodboards, playlists, and Instagram meme pages.

Joan Didion

Portrait of the writer as an exhibit.

on the Joan Didion “retrospective” at the Los Angeles-based Hammer Museum.

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What Joan Didion means

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Osamu Dazai, BookTok's problematic fave.

on Osamu Dazai’s modernist novel No Longer Human, and his newfound English-language fame as a TikTok author.

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Dead Novelists Society

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus Season Two, 2022. (Fabio Lovino/HBO)

Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus

A riff on The Tale of Genji.

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