Reader's choice 🗳️

The year is coming to a close, and we’d love to hear which Dirt stories you’re still thinking about. Below are my personal top 10, but keep scrolling for more info on this year’s Reader’s Choice categories and how to vote! — Daisy Alioto

DAISY’S TOP 10 DIRT 2024

1. Animal subordination by Miri Gordis

On vegetarianism, trauma, and a way to “remake the unfolding of the world.”

2. The world has turned and left me here by Alexandra Coburn

On public victimhood and private grief.

3. Music for dolphins by Molly Mary O'Brien

On music manufactured for a new millennium.

4. Baldwin’s Soulmates

Michelle Santiago Cortés in conversation with Hilton Als. 

5. Boat songs by Walden Green

On yacht rock and embracing the smooth. 

6. Space Crone by Meghna Rao

On Ursula K. Le Guin’s pioneering, inventive, rapidly fading early-internet blog.

7. Diary of a broke nose

Maxwell Williams of UFO Parfums on Jean-Claude Ellena, good bottles, Marx, and the never-ending quest for ethanol.

8. Rebus time by Colin Everest

Colin Everest on photograph as anti-clock, and a Rauschenberg painting that sets its own pace.

9. The attention plot by Bekah Waalkes

On yearning for focus in the contemporary novel.

10. Metaphorically speaking by Meg Miller

On the brain-computer metaphor.

We’d love your input on our Year in Review!

Here are the categories:

Couldn’t stop thinking about it. A story that lingered with you for some time.
Mood-bender. A story that seamlessly wove a spectrum of feelings in you.
Laughed out loud. A story that left you irresistibly amused.
Tearful triumph. A story that broke your heart.
Dirt story of the year. A story that’s a masterpiece.