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Nymphet Alumni

Close-reading trends without losing your mind. 

interviews the trio behind Nymphet Alumni, a fashion and culture podcast.

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Woman Reading at Desk, Thomas P. Anshutz 

Woman Reading at Desk

When a writer is quotable to a fault on the feed.

on how Anne Carson's collagist poetry reflects Tumblr's scrapbook-like ethos.

Tumblr poet laureate

Joan Miró's Paysage in Wall Street (1987)

Joan Miró's Paysage in Wall Street 

I Spy a Sterling Ruby. 

on looking for works of art in works of fiction.

Wallcreeping

Nicole Kidman AMC ad

Reviewing NYC's most uncomfortable movie theater seats.

goes bumming around the arthouse circuit. 

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Stiff as a board

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The unbearable flatness of being online.

on the rise and fall of skeuomorphic design.

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Skeuomorphia

Alicia Kennedy

A conversation with food writer Alicia Kennedy. 

interviews Alicia Kennedy, author of the forthcoming book No Meat Required (Beacon Press, August 2023). 


No meat required

Starbucks Odyssey

Two kinds of runs. 

on Starbucks' siren NFTs, and Terry Nguyen on the Silicon Valley bank meltdown. 

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Bank for your buck

Urban Outfitters books

Remember when Tumblrs turned into picture books?

on a strange period in 2000s culture—when a popular Tumblr could become a coffee table book.  

Look at This F*cking Hipster by Joe Mande, 2010. 

Look at This Fucking Hipster

Urban Outfitters literature

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