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Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta is the author of American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest, which will be published by Pantheon in January 2025. He is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A psychedelic alien is motioning towards an open door.

Princes of Infinite Space

January 10, 2022
In the spring of 2016, with most of the United States suffering through a protracted nervous breakdown brought on by that year’s presidential primaries, the billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Milner called a press conference near the top of One World Trade Center in hopes of ...
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The Short Story Priesthood

When George Saunders first arrived at Syracuse University in 1986, he had three hundred bucks, an aging pick-up truck, and a prodigious, blond mustache. His proletarian look and habit of sleeping in the beater’s camper extension only added to the mystique of being the only ...
A giant golden hand holds up an oversized porkchop as the little people try to clamber on top of the plate. They are unsuccessful.

Dinner with Schmucks

Welcome to TAK Room. Take a seat right here, in one of our cushioned banquettes. Settle in. Let your eyes wander out onto Hudson Yards—our view of The Vessel simply can’t be beat. Have a flute of blanc de blancs while the jazz band tunes up and you look over the menu. You ...
A prototypical fanboy wearing a Captain America hat opens his mouth wide for the Content Train carrying TV and sports trivia. The train tracks loop out his ears and straight back into his eyes in grotesque feedback loop.

For All Fankind

September 1, 2019
When Marvel Studios was founded in the summer of 1996, superheroes were close to irrelevant. Comic book sales were in decline, Marvel’s initially popular Saturday morning cartoons were waning, and the company’s attempts over the previous decades to break through in Hollywood ...