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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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Insisting on abstraction.

on Andrew Wyeth and the aurora borealis. 

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Aurora

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Food waste

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“We’re all having mental breakdowns.”

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Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

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Korean food today cares little about borders

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Koreaworld

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The most earnest thing you can do is a book deal.

on Honor Levy’s first novel and the post Alt Lit era.

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My First Book

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"Obsessions are the only things that matter."

in conversation with [Anna Dorn](https://www.anna-dorn.com/) on her new novel.

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Perfume and Pain

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"It gave me the impression that I was present in the previous life"

on Nigeria's influx of open-air markets and thrift booksellers.

Nigeria has a bookshop problem

Sex Goblin

“I’m just looking to be anything else.”

The following is an excerpt of Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on May 28, 2024.

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