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Starting a magazine is an act of optimism. 

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The Fence across the pond

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"I'm honestly just a hardcore sentence freak."

in conversation with Sophie Kemp about Kemp’s debut novel. 

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Paradise Logic

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The fantasy of the serious novel. 

on what makes a book “difficult” and the way seriousness is marketed in publishing.

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Marketing difficulty 

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A new home for books coverage at Dirt.

introduces Dirt’s new publication about books and the culture around them.

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Swimming in the culture.

in conversation with [Curtis Sittenfeld](https://x.com/csittenfeld) about Sittenfeld’s new short story collection. 

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I Love Shopping

"Everything is simultaneously old and new with me."

The following is an excerpt of [I Love Shopping](https://nightboat.org/book/i-love-shopping/?_bhlid=12977f31acd3c48e85159a1d57ad520465793796) by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on April 8, 2025.

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