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Dirt is in The New York Times Style section today! Interviewed by Paul McAdory, our CEO Marissa Daisy Firke shares her "big ambitions for her small media empire." 🍄 Ms. Alioto’s sojourn to the De Maria sculpture had a winking air about it: the digital was paying tribute to a physical ancestor; Dirt was beholding dirt. 🐌 It’s not often that a media company of Dirt’s size purchases another. But Ms. Alioto hopes to add many newsletters to Dirt Media, saying she wants Dirt to become “the Condé Nast of newsletters” or “the LVMH of media.” 🌱 She argued that, in a world drowning in throwaway content, taste — not simply “good” or “bad,” per se, but rather cultivated and communicable — will soon be one of the only things that can be monetized. Read the whole thing: https://lnkd.in/efUS7r3H

Over the past two weeks, Dirt shared our latest joint editorial project: the #SummerOfBibliomancy, a collaboration with the interactive digital tarot platform Moonlight, founded by Danielle Baskin. We tasked six of our contributors to get their cards read and write about it, and launched a free online Major Arcana deck featuring artwork by Christine Shan Shan Hou. Now, revisit the whole series below! 🕯 🔮 ✨ Marissa Daisy Firke announced the series and shared our official Summer of Bibliomancy Spotify playlist: https://lnkd.in/eKWFjDDt Miriam Gordis wrote about vegetarianism, creative labor, and trying to rewrite our childhood traumas: https://lnkd.in/eEperk4s Terry Nguyen and Evan Grillon interviewed each other on whether fate is real, among other things: https://lnkd.in/eRyQjXyw Katy Kelleher embraced Georgia O'Keefe and became a "devotee of destruction": https://lnkd.in/eTMidRUB Vivian Medithi penned two poems inspired by his reading: https://lnkd.in/e7_rUiND Michelle Lyn King, EIC of Joyland Magazine, shared a gorgeous and vulnerable personal essay about the narratives that structure our lives: https://lnkd.in/eV4Y7GVA To close things out, Daisy interviewed Christine about their creative process behind designing the Dirt x Moonlight deck, which can be used for free on the Moonlight platform now: https://lnkd.in/eJHNkCgN #tarot #dirt #moonlight #newmedia

The Dirtyverse expands! This week, we launched the first installment of our podcast Tasteland, made in collaboration with beehiiv and hosted by Dirt CEO Marissa Daisy Firke and Francis Zierer. Listen to the first episode now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

Starting today, we'll be rounding up news from the Dirtyverse on this page once per week: stories we've published, collabs we've launched, and insider intel about things coming down the pipeline. To stay up to date, make sure you're following us on this page and any other socials (We're @dirtyverse on X and @dirt.fyi on Instagram). This week in Dirt 7/15-7/19: On Monday, Rebecca Miller wrote an entry in our Base-sponsored #FAN series about Michael Imperioli and Lou Reed's decades-long friendship, which inspired Imperioli's debut novel, The Perfume Burned His Eyes. Read: https://lnkd.in/eh-_3Zhj Then, first-time Dirt columnist Kara Rota wrote about the proliferation of literary binaries, which appear everywhere from Miranda July's All Fours (2024) to Big Little Lies to some of our favorite viral stories we've published. Read: https://lnkd.in/edh8J5yK Our Wednesday article was originally published in DRAUP CEO Daniella Loftus' newsletter, This Outfit Does Not Exist, and explores what cryptocurrency #memecoins and the controversial art collective #MSCHF have in common. Read: https://lnkd.in/erPebe8P Dirt's new intern Chloe Norman also had her site debut this week, interviewing author Jessica Anthony about her new novel, #TheMost, which is out at the end of July from Little, Brown and Company. Read: https://lnkd.in/ehxj4zFj Finally, Colin Everest identified the subjects of a photo in a Rauschenberg collage, and actually managed to interview one of them. This members-only article can be read in full by anyone with a Dirt 2024 Subscription. Read: https://lnkd.in/ekbvRKFm In other news, Dirt Founders Pass holders received a special newsletter featuring an interview with Kaitlyn Davies about her new Lisbon-based bookstore; subscribers with an open rate of > 50% also got a special dispatch of good links from around the web; and our next brand collab will be officially announced this Monday! Stay tuned... #dirt #newmedia #taste

Even our idols have idols. Today’s Dirt is another entry in our #FAN series, sponsored by Base For this Installment Rebecca Miller writes about the decades-long friendship with Lou Reed that inspired Michael Imperioli’s debut novel, The Perfume Burned His Eyes. “Maybe they shared a cigarette or a gin and tonic or a simple nod on the street outside of Christopher-Sheridan station. I would like to imagine so.” Read: https://lnkd.in/eh-_3Zhj

Don't miss our chat with Anjan Katta at Daylight Computer Co. on the Daylight Computer! "Literally all of us are a little more anxious and little more tight because our breathing rate gets messed up when looking at screens." Read: dirrrt.fyi/3yvHfyz

my essay, "Trash Metaphors" is up today on Dirt. I explore the history of the trash icon and the fading appeal of the desktop metaphor. This is part of a collaboration between digital fashion company DRAUP and Dirt https://lnkd.in/d5Z3evn6

DELETE THIS. ❌🗑️ Nika Simovich Fisher digs into the trash icon and deleting things on screens. "The act of deleting things on computers is misleading. Interfaces tempt us to 'throw things away,' but really we’re just moving data around, placing things in a holding folder until more permanent steps are taken." Read: https://dirrrt.fyi/3WUaZ1X

Daniella Loftus is 𝓣𝓡𝓐𝓢𝓗 and you can be too! Get digitally dressing in our DRAUP x Dirt TRASH TRENCH today at www.draup.xyz/apply-now #DIGITALFASHION