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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
    • 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
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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
    • 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
Essay, Memoir, & Lyric

What are the songs of the city?

A train rushes by at JFK Airport in NYC. A building made entirely of class can be seen in the background.

Gospel

The side of a tall, barrel-shaped building with oval windows.

My Repeating World

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

Crossing the Green Line

A long crowd of people walking cover the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue in NYC.

Gertrude Stein and Sima Rabinowitz Walk Down Fifth Avenue Together

A floating pile of trash and debris in Montrose Harbor, Chicago.

ASSEMBLAGES

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

The Same River Twice

A biker in cutoff denim shorts and a license plate that reads “Hot cabs Tips Only 6”

SHOTTYZ: A LOVE STORY

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