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Mike Nagel's essays have been published in The Rumpus, D Magazine, and The Paris Review Daily.

Selected Nonsense

On Superfoods and Satisfaction, D Magazine

Very Important People, Dirt

Hairbrained in Dallas, D Magazine

Orientation, The Rumpus

Greetings from the City of Excellence!, Passages North

Another Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Little Engines

Notes from the Blue Zone, Little Engines

Capeesh, Hobart

Hand Grenade, Peach Mag

Consumer Value Store, Jellyfish Review

Handbrake, Hobart

Larry, Who Got Hit By a Bus, Outlook Springs

Object Permanence, DIAGRAM

What Doesn't Kill Us, The Spectacle

Burning Man, Hobart

Soul of America's Urban Park Machine, The Awl

Let's Talk about Skin, The Paris Review Daily

Twilight of the Indoor Mall, The Awl

Michigan, Juked

Castle Bravo, Apt

The Unintentionalist

Between August 2022 and July 2023, I wrote a monthly column for the magazine Little Engines called "The Unintentionalist." It wasn't really about anything.

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