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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 Review & Interview
    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
  • Contents of the City
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Automat, 1927 by Edward Hopper. A young girl sits alone at a cafe with a solemn look on her face.
A large boat is tethered to land in Detroit, Michigan.
A woman in a red dress with a child tied to her back walks alongside a road. She is balancing a purple basket on her head.
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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
Report & Eyewitness

If you see something say something.

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)

Three cars are parked on Elizabeth Avenue in Mexico in front of a furniture store.

Wendy

Return to Bombay Quarter

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

Busy Enough to Take in the Likes of Me

Two young girls in white sweaters hold hands while Irish dancing before a small crowd of adults.

Reading Galway

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