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    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
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    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
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    • 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 Interview
  • Contents of the City
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An empty intersection surrounded by empty brick sidewalks and a row of street lamps in the small town of Gary, Indiana. A street sign in the foreground says “Broadway
Two men are sitting together on a city bench. The man sitting on the left side of the bench is wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a tank top that says “The Smiths.” His arm is wrapped around the shoulder of the man on the right who is wearing a t-shirt and jean shorts.
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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
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • 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 Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
Sunset with telephone poles.

Be Here Now

South Side Chicago in 1970. Vintage cars are driving down a road with business marquees on the sidewalks.

Narrow Places

Palm trees illuminated by lights.

Magic City Nocturne

Abandoned buildings in Beirut line a gravel road where there are piles of dirt and several soldiers standing guard.

Crossing the Green Line

A large boat is tethered to land in Detroit, Michigan.

The Same River Twice

Black and white photograph of an empty suburban street.

DREAM HOUSE

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