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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
London parade, with a parade boat and figure standing on it and European and UK flags attached, people holding up signs.
A dark sidewalk in Las Vegas, covered in puddles with a vertical neon sign in the background lighting up the area in colors of violets and blues.
Two Black men sitting in the front seat of a red vintage car at a car show. Car doors and trunk open and on display.
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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.

A young boy looks out the window of a train. The rest of the train can be seen behind him, disappearing into the distance.

FICTIONS OF THE CITY

Busy city street in Mumbai, India.

How to Cross a Street in Mumbai

New York city street illuminated by the golden hour.

Metropolis

Playing Bridge with the Roosevelts

Frank

A narrow street between two ornate buildings in Bukhansen leads downhill. The rest of the skyline can be seen in the distance.

Bukhansan

A black and white picture of an older blonde woman smirking at the camera

Chicago Song
(The City as Personative)

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