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Mike Nagel's essays have been published in apt, Hobart, Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, and The Paris Review Daily. His essay "Beached Whales" was a Best American Essays 2017 Notable Essay.

Selected Nonsense

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Notes from the Blue Zone, Little Engines

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Capeesh, Hobart

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Hand Grenade, Peach Mag

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Consumer Value Store, Jellyfish Review

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BEEF HAM, The Hunger

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Handbrake, Hobart

 

Larry, Who Got Hit By a Bus, Outlook Springs

 

Object Permanence, DIAGRAM

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Stranger, Spry

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What Doesn't Kill Us, The Spectacle

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Beached Whales, Apt

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Burning Man, Hobart

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Soul of America's Urban Park Machine, The Awl

 

Let's Talk about Skin, The Paris Review Daily

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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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