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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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Britney and Madonna

Self-improvement? In this economy?

on speedrunning trends and refusing personal development.


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Hot regression summer

Amor Cringe

A "deepfake autofiction" novelette.

's excerpt of Amor Cringe (Deluge Books, April 2022).

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Neighborhoods are memes now.

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Nowhere or New York

Technelegy

"I get goosebumps looking at what is coming out of the generator."

interviews Sasha Stiles about her new book, *Technelegy*.

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AI poetry

Bootleg daycare

You remember Betsy Boo, don’t you?

on knockoff Disney murals and the slightly fucked look of an unauthenticated childhood.

Internet criticism social

Never send to know for whom the meta verses; it verses for thee.

Internet criticism

What is internet criticism?

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

The ghost of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.

on the urge to recreate images of a doomed couple.

Paparazzi hauntology

Fran Drescher as Fran Fine in The Nanny

Not Emily. Not Bella.

finds that The Nanny is different than she remembered.

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Fran in New York

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