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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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"Our addictions don’t bother us until they are no longer satiable."

is a writer and the head of NOR Research Studio.

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Research

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"I ate the cake to get on with things."

is author of six books, most recently "Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening." She writes the substack "[Everything is Personal](https://lauriestone.substack.com/).”

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Cake

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Surf for everyone. 

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Sweet Emocean

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The internet’s lumberjacks. 

Big swinging axes

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A Q&A with author Nicole Flattery. 

talks to Nicole Flattery about fictionalizing Warhol's Factory. 

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Nothing Special 

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The fictionalized drug trip.

talks with Geoff Rickly about his forthcoming book Someone Who Isn’t Me.

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Invisible architecture

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Jane Pratt’s confessional enterprise fails to materialize.

goes down the rabbithole of Jane Pratt's new startup.

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Where Is DeedDa?

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Wealthy people cosplay.

examines how aesthetics like "old money" and "quiet luxury" are stylistic dupes.

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Look rich quick

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