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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Berthold Block

Leave it to chance.

on the thrills of AMC's Screen Unseen program. 

Movie roulette

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"The goal is to construct something that can outlast all of its members."

in conversation with Subvert founder [Austin Robey](https://x.com/austinrobey_?_bhlid=81970f543a569e033dfbc65c46692e2745380d00). 

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Radicalized by Bandcamp

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Swimming in the culture.

in conversation with [Curtis Sittenfeld](https://x.com/csittenfeld) about Sittenfeld’s new short story collection. 

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Show Don't Tell

I Love Shopping

"Everything is simultaneously old and new with me."

The following is an excerpt of [I Love Shopping](https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-love-shopping/21652118?ean=9781643622866&next=t&affiliate=114129) by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on April 8, 2025.

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Customer service, or customer servitude?

on poor tippers, private burrito taxis, and the exploitative economics of DoorDash and UberEats.

Customer service, or customer servitude

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"We have to contend with these manufactured landscapes."

in conversation with photographer [Annette LeMay Burke](https://atelierlemay.com/).

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Worst Movie Ever

Turn it off. 

Dirt friends and contributors share movies that would been better left unwatched. 

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The search for the future body. 

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In walks my nose

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