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Issue Two

  • The South Bronx did not exist

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.

  • Cheers!

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    A photograph found in Rome’s Porta Portese. The recumbent can also raise a glass.

  • Marx and the art of natural winemaking

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    The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is wine?

  • The room I am in

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    Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.

  • Glossomania-mania

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    On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.

  • A recipe for word vomit

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    On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.

  • Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich

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    On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.

  • Longing + debt

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 And — I failed. I replaced this paragraph.

  • Dinosaurs + dolphins

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.

  • A can-can dancer performs a Christmas tree

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.

  • An Odessa conga line

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Back to work? Back to play? Hard to say.

  • Possession, demonic vs mundane

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Not by the devil but by my fellow mortals.