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The writer and editor Greta Rainbow joins me to talk Aspen AIR Festival, the psychic capital of the world and secret sources plus old men LARP and yell at clouds, and diamonds in the rough.

Ben Dietz
Aug 11, 2026
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Hi all.

As promised, first in what will be an ongoing series of subscriber-only [SIC] Talks on Tuesdays. This week’s guest Greta Rainbow is an editor of The Creative Independent, and of Dirt, a columnist at The New York Review of Architecture and contributor to numerous other publications. She’s based in New York.

Links to match (with more links following after the transcript):

  • Greta’s Aspen diary for Interview charts her travels to the mountains for AIR, “Aspen Art Museum’s festival of contemporary art, performance, and ideas”

  • In parallel: Ben Davis (part of the same junket Greta was on) has his own account of The Curious Case of the AIR Festival in Aspen

  • Another of Greta’s diary / travelogues (literally and metaphysically), this time to The Psychic Capital of the World.

  • Corollary to that account, welcome to my Bardo. A Guide to the Afterlife: A Conversation with George Saunders

  • Since we’re getting literary: One of Greta’s faves from her Dirt column: At the tender age of 100, Book of the Month is still grappling with its literary identity.

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