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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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"Obsessions are the only things that matter."

in conversation with [Anna Dorn](https://www.anna-dorn.com/) on her new novel.

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Perfume and Pain

The Chess Players, Liberale da Verona, ca. 1475

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Don't let go.

on “the loneliness economy” and evolving notions of romantic love. This essay was originally published in [Small Wire](https://smallwire.beehiiv.com/p/in-defense-of-feeling?utm_source=weekly-dirt.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=in-defense-of-feeling).

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In defense of feeling

Nigerian bookstores

"It gave me the impression that I was present in the previous life"

on Nigeria's influx of open-air markets and thrift booksellers.

Nigeria has a bookshop problem

Sex Goblin

“I’m just looking to be anything else.”

The following is an excerpt of Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on May 28, 2024.

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Don’t tell me how it ends.

on the recent eclipse and artist and programmer Harold Cohen. 

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Occlusion

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"There are wants, and there are needs."

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This is happiness

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"It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people."

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In service 

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Doing more with less, together. 

on whether the middle class writer is a myth. 

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Writing as labor

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