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  • An Unlucky Man

    An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

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  • How Americans edit sex out of my writing

    How Americans edit sex out of my writing

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    What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul of the page.

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  • Borderland

    Borderland

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    The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of Sylt, as part of her travels along the North Sea coast.

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  • Animal Anti-Cities

    Animal Anti-Cities

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    « A black cat sneaks across a flower bed toward a shed, past some asters, and squeezes into a gap an arm’s width wide. Some worn-down club-goers lay wasted on sofas, sweat and smoke in a late-summer landscape. » On Berlin clubs and Calvino’s cat flâneurs.

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