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  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—THE ARCHIVAL CITY
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Street corner with a yellow firehydrant and a stop sign, the side of a building with graffiti on it, and palm trees in the background.
Shards of wood, remains of a pier, stick up through the water in front of the NYC skyline.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—THE ARCHIVAL CITY
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Report & Eyewitness

If you see something say something.

Group of people wearing surgical masks standing around a food stall titled "De Paris: Crepes."

We Need Our Pain

People standing in a line at a postal office, "six-feet apart" yellow tape is on the ground.

Pandemic, Florida 33004

Two people talking to eachother at a bar under a string of national flags beside a street filled with parked cars and people walking.

Another Type of Silence

A sandy street with a rail road crossing. In the background there are short buildings, high-rise apartments blocks, and snow-capped mountains.

Down on the Street at Blake & Sixteen

A one-story brown brick and white plaster house with a slanted roof; a car is parked on a cracked driveway surrounded by overgrown plants.

The Birds Don’t Stop

A group of pigeons on a brick sidewalk; people are walking by them.

It’s the Alcohol Talking (three street scenes and one old memory)

Bare tree branches against a blue sky with a few clouds.

In Winnemac Park

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