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Life and death at Balthazar

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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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“I wrote down some questions, actually.”

is the author of "[A Few Stories Where the Protagonists Become Worse and Worse](https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Where-Protagonists-Become-Worse-ebook/dp/B0B1VV6SNV?ref_=ast_author_dp)."

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