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Laptop nonfiction

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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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Real writers, real budgets.

reached out to four different writers to anonymously document a week in their financial lives. 

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Money diaries

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Contemporary literary novels are haunted by the absence of money.

on what happens when novels aren't clear about money. 

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Conspicuously absent

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A new series from Dirt and Literary Hub.

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Cutting class 

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The discipline of anguish.

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Baldwin’s Soulmates

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For every novelist, an alt. 

on how running an anonymous Twitter account is the perfect way to recover from writing a novel.

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Baby’s all right

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A fleeting figure of New York’s underground. 

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Who Are You Dorothy Dean?

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Worrying with Alexandra Tanner. 

and Alexandra Tanner discuss Tanner's debut novel, Worry. 

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A room of string

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Heroines 

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