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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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The Popular Alternative

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Shouting into the void that answers back.

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What was 'replying'? 

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A Q&A with poet Brendan Joyce.

and Brendan Joyce discuss his new poetry collection, Personal Problem.

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Always has been

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It can be our secret.

on letting it all out a little bit at a time. 

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Crying in Luke’s Lobster

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The real culture war.

on the fracturing of the white collar monoculture.

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Corporate Culture

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A sober curiosity. 

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Oxymania

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The American love language.

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Generosity and paranoia

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Against saviors.

interviews [Kylie Cheung](https://twitter.com/kylietcheung), author of [*Survivor Injustice* ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724433/survivor-injustice-by-kylie-cheung/)(August 2023).

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Private survivors

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Too late for the last thing, too early for the next.

introduces an updated version of the essay [What Is Lifestyle](https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/08/what-is-lifestyle), which was self-published in 2020.

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Introducing Lifestyle

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