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Life and death at Balthazar

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Once upon a time. 

is a literary agent, editor, and writer in Evanston, Illinois.

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Two Fairy Tales

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"I am his descendant and of course it isn’t easy to be a descendant." 

lives in New York City. She was born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in New England. Her debut novel Lonely Crowds will be published by Little, Brown in 2025.

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Our Funeral

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Apparitions of absence.

on a photography book by Marc Zegans and Tsar Fedorsky.

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Ghost Book

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I will answer.

on Conclave, The Brutalist and faith in language.

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Call yourself

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“An eerie analog for our own existence”

in conversation with [Erika Howsare](https://erikahowsare.com/) on her book, *[The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-age-of-deer-trouble-and-kinship-with-our-wild-neighbors-erika-howsare/19959036?ean=9781646222506&next=t&affiliate=114129).*


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The Age of Deer

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Essays on the future that never was. 

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"Are we there yet?"

Dirt contributors and friends share their go-to gas station orders. 


Gas Station Orders 

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Pain is beauty.

on a new social category. This is part two of a two-part series.


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Botched pt. 2

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