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Lorelei and Athens
By Zans Brady Krohn“They were not fancy girls, but they did love the absolute best of things, and also appreciated the simple pleasures the earth had to offer: good red dirt, full-fat Coca-Cola.”
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Fiction
Facades
By David Szalay“He feels almost like he’s in mourning. For months, more than a year, in fact, the hotel idea has been the main thing in his life.”
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Fiction
Wolfgang Koeppen’s Structural Musicality
By Joshua Cohen“The man was writing like his typewriter was on fire and in flaming succession produced three books that have been called a trilogy through proximity alone.”
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On Books
GemStone
By Tao Lin“You also see the town constable, a banana cupcake, a large acorn, and an herbal remedy donation bin.”
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Letters & Essays
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My Friend Bambi
By Brontez Purnell“When the baddest bitch in the room makes you feel seen you never forget it.”
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First Person
Sleeper Bus
By Yu Hua“Their standard pattern of operation involved making a sum of money, losing it, and then starting over.”
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Fiction
1981
By Asiya Wadud“in a world / the orange sun / resets / a recessed darkness”
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Poetry
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.
