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    • 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
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A neighborhood at night, powerlines in the distance, houses with night lights on that glare the image, cars parked in driveways.
A biker in cutoff denim shorts and a license plate that reads “Hot cabs Tips Only 6”
Stacked industrial shipping crates aside a train passing on the train tracks, with the city line in the background.
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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?

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

Narrow Places

Poster from 1937 Columbia Pictures film Paid to Dance. The women in the poster are leaning towards the camera and not smiling

Reconstructing V

Palm trees illuminated by lights.

Magic City Nocturne

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

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