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We all deserve a nightcap. 

Friends of Dirt and Cake Zine tell us which desserts they reach for in the early morning hours. 

2AM Dessert 

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Catering the sex party.

continues Dessert After Dark, an edition of The Nightlife Review in collaboration with [Cake Zine](https://cakezine.com/). 

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The Treats of Versailles 

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“I feel like Simone Weil handling a firearm.”

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The Sanrio Machete

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When is a chair not just a chair?

on The National Leprechaun Museum. This is the third dispatch in our column VISITOR, about the way museums influence culture.

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Plastic Paddies

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Where land and beloved merge.

in conversation with [Forrest Gander](https://forrestgander.com/).

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Mojave Ghost

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"As the mouse completed its lifespan inside me"

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These Old Tomcat Feelings

Maria del Rosario

"Finally, something of substance I could turn into work."

is a writer living in New York. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and is currently at work on a novel and a story collection.

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