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Life and death at Balthazar

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The dirtyverse expands. 

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Meet Prune

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Printed matter.

on the enduring appeal of a book that’s not quite a book.

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Art Book Fever

Child and chicks, 1905

The pros of outside pets.

on how chickens help us, and our gardens, grow.

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For the love of chickens

The Virgin Suicides

On what we wear to bed.

and friends present recommendations for sleepwear.

Sleeping beauties

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How the Coffee Shop AU feeds romance.

on the fantasy of ordinary reality in fanfiction. 

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Love and Lattes

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Part two of our series on artificial intelligence and body horror.

on the boundary between human, software and machine. To read the first part of this series, AI Abjection, [click here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/08/ai-abjection).

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AI Bleed

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Consider the matinee.

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Should concerts start earlier?

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A Q&A with poet Brendan Joyce.

and Brendan Joyce discuss his new poetry collection, Personal Problem.

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