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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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OBJET Bakelite Bag

"It holds my secrets but also the mysteries of those that came before me."

on the cathartic potential of a second-hand bag. 

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The Bakelite Bag

Attention

We have distraction at home.

on yearning for focus in the contemporary novel.

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The attention plot

Grottos

Heaven and earth.

interviews Krista Mileva-Frank about curating Objects for a Heavenly Cave at Marta gallery in Los Angeles, closing on October 12th, 2024. 

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On grottos

Still Life & Citrus

“An orange did love / The man who ate it”

on citrus, still life, and the aesthetics of exposure.

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Ways of peeling

Jenny Holzer

The monument is the message.

on what goes said and unsaid in Jenny Holzer’s *Light Line* at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Downward spiral

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A formally inventive satire of the reject class.

on Tony Tulathimutte’s *[Rejection](https://bookshop.org/p/books/rejection-fiction-tony-tulathimutte/20988157?ean=9780063337879&next=t&affiliate=114129)*.

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Re: Rejection

Greenwell

“How do we get the world on the page?”

interviews novelist and poet [Garth Greenwell](https://twitter.com/GarthGreenwell) about his latest novel *Small Rain*, out now from Macmillan.


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J Walk

"Art is made, and people descend on it."

and [Nazareno Crea](https://nazareno.nyc/) unspool a typographic saga in Manhattan’s East Village.

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J. Walks

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