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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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Then I drift away...

talks with Ben Fama about his debut novel, If I Close My Eyes (SARKA, 2023).

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If I Close My Eyes

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The Troye Sivan explainer.

on ‘Something to Give Each Other’ and “searchable tags.”

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Bottoms up

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Play the movie!

on the DVD menu, a disappearing digital relic.

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Requiem for the DVD menu

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Exit through the gift shop.

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Moomin boom

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Shouting into the void that answers back.

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What was 'replying'? 

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Curated versus confessional clutter.

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Bless this mess

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Not the harvest we want, but the harvest we deserve. 

on what’s rising to the top of the algorithm these days.

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Farmers only

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A new category of entertainment.

on what happens when reality shows like KUWTK and metanarratives like Asteroid City converge.

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Our convenient reality

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