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Olivia Kan-Sperling

OLIVIA KAN-SPERLING is a writer and an assistant editor at The Paris Review. Her books include Little Pink Book: a bad bad novel (Archway Editions, 2025) and Island Time (Expat Press, 2022). She lives in New York.

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Second-Hand Lifestyles
By Olivia Kan-Sperling

In times of it-girl inflation, when everyone wants to live in a celebrity’s skin, the spirit of Joan Didion explains why style survives death and serious (prose-)stylists only buy Kim K’s shapewear.

Essay
Emily Dickinson’s Apple Computer House
By Olivia Kan-Sperling

The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer.

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