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"I'm honestly just a hardcore sentence freak."

in conversation with Sophie Kemp about Kemp’s debut novel. 

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Paradise Logic

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One writer's love for collecting Italo Calvino paperbacks offers a glimpse at how book design twists and turns over the decades. 

on what her collection of Italo Calvino novels says about the shifting winds of design in book publishing.

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The novel cover changes and changes

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The fantasy of the serious novel. 

on what makes a book “difficult” and the way seriousness is marketed in publishing.

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Marketing difficulty 

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What Severance gets right about fandom.

on why podcasts are the new Blu-ray extras.

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Podcasts as lorecasts

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A new home for books coverage at Dirt.

introduces Dirt’s new publication about books and the culture around them.

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Designing Blank 

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The quintessential American gimmick.

with an ode to wrestling’s “ladder match.” 

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Laddermania

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Passing out in public.

on the self-fulfilling documentation of Shibuya’s nightlife.

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Shibuya Meltdown

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Leave it to chance.

on the thrills of AMC's Screen Unseen program. 

Movie roulette

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