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The Welder
By Ingeborg Bachmann“The man read and read, moving his lips; now and then his whole body started moving and then the words entered him like spirits.”
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Curtis
By Patrick Cottrell“Stephen suggested that they have sex on the kitchen table but Susan declined. She hadn’t brushed her teeth yet.”
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Barthelme, the Houstonian
By Susan ChoiHouston is a city of unexpected adjacencies. Because it has no zoning regulations, it has no zones.
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The House with the Mezzanine
By Dan Bevacqua“I was supposed to middle-man these people into a situation of potential annoyance—if not harassment? Me? The poor kid from Jersey?”
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Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota
By Thomas John Weber“Data center? What do you think I am, a rocket scientist?” one guy said.
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On Poetry
On Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving Saint Eustace
By Inger Christensen“We shall see the deer as part of the trunks of the forest. // We shall see its antlers imitating the branches of the trees.”
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1981
By Asiya Wadud“in a world / the orange sun / resets / a recessed darkness”
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ART 149: Music for Visual Thinking
By Cauleen SmithThis portfolio renders a selection of the vinyl records Smith plays to begin each session of the undergraduate studio course she teaches at UCLA.
