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    • 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
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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
BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City

Books by and about Chicagoans from the DePaul
Publishing Institute: bigshouldersbooks.com

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VIRUS CITY

Introduction

Zero to One Hundred

A Beacon of Hope

Nobody Can Take Away That Voice

Who Saw This Coming?

Pandemic Life: Stories of Resilience

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