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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 fantasy of the serious novel. 

on what makes a book “difficult” and the way seriousness is marketed in publishing.

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Marketing difficulty 

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A new home for books coverage at Dirt.

introduces Dirt’s new publication about books and the culture around them.

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Designing Blank 

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Swimming in the culture.

in conversation with [Curtis Sittenfeld](https://x.com/csittenfeld) about Sittenfeld’s new short story collection. 

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I Love Shopping

"Everything is simultaneously old and new with me."

The following is an excerpt of [I Love Shopping](https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-love-shopping/21652118?ean=9781643622866&next=t&affiliate=114129) by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on April 8, 2025.

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The search for the future body. 

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In walks my nose

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An aristocracy of the considerate.

on Elaine Aron and the allure of labeling.

Highly Sensitive People

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“One more cup of wine for our remaining happiness.”

on the fashions and fancies of Gagosian’s Cy Twombly opening.

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Scene report: Twombly 

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"She just wanted to be left alone"

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The Cheese Brigade

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