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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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"So how’d you sleep?"

An excerpt from [Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/9780231203425). 

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Love, Joe

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“I am so sorry for being insane.”

on sleepwalking, surveillance delusions, and the anxieties of adulthood.

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The Sleep Mask

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Moonwalking into the future.

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Didion & Babitz

Cartography of Letters

Return to sender. 

on tracing her history at an archival epistolary exhibition in India. 

A Cartography of Letters

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“Things would have to be elevated from now on.”

on micro-utopias, going Matilda-mode, and embracing her consumerist impulses.

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The Milk Pan

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Victoria’s Secret and the business of female fantasy.

in conversation with Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez.

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Sexy can I?

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"What is a god?"

on the thin veil between who you are and who you could be.

The Fox Skull

Selected Amazon Review

In each Amazon review lives a universe.

on the avant-garde narrative reconstruction hidden in Kevin Killian’s Amazon reviews. 

Selected Amazon Reviews

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