How does one “shelter in place” when one has limited shelter?
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Tag: Another Chicago Magazine
In the city that some used to call the Seattle of Italy, nowadays you can only overdose on poetry.
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The coronavirus has made me feel more connected to the world than I have felt in a long time.
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“What have they been feeding you in here?” I ask.
“A bunch of bullshit!”
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“If I had been chewing gum, I would’ve swallowed it right there,” Jefferson Navicky writes upon reading Maureen Seaton.
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Each panel felt a little like The Decameron, where we listened and told stories while the weight of the plague swung over us like a poorly-anchored chandelier.
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“Whether V’s and June’s story is your or my family story,” writes Chelsea Biondodillo, “it is still our story and it should rattle and anger even as it hollows out a soft spot in the heart for these fierce and sorrowful unsung stories.”
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“Love As The World Ends”
“If This Next Apocalypse Gets Canceled Or Postponed”
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Michael McColly writes: “Farber states what is obvious for anyone who’s spent any time or been affected by America’s massive prison industrial complex: ‘Sometimes, we need to stare at the drear reaches of our national soul to understand who we are and who we wish to be.’”
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“Would you like to go for a dinner, let’s say in one or two months, if restaurant will be reopened by that time?” I imagine he would ask.
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