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"I learned quickly that people accept what you tell them if you say it cheerfully."

on how she got out and the whales didn't. 

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Disassociating in a whale costume under the Texas sun

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The fantasy of the fragment.

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Laptop nonfiction

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"There’s an unwritten rule in baby commercials that you never put the babies in socks."

on selling baby food, and the American dream.

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Making babies

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"We don't do coffee—we want the books to be the thing."

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Recluse books

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 Our latest Dirt Prompt.

Strong opinions from the extended dirtyverse. 

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What feels like writing but isn't? 

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King of complaints. 

on the fashionable turn toward Thomas Bernhard.

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Saint Bernhard

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"These are all good choices."

is a programmer, writer, and former bookseller.

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The hostess with the least. 

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