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Luke Burns

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Luke Burns is a writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, New York Magazine, HAD, and in the books The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something. More at lukevburns.com.

November 19, 2010

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by Luke Burns
December 3, 2009

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by Brian Agler and Luke Burns
August 15, 2008

Selections from H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter

by Luke Burns

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