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L.A.WOMAN

In the spring, before I began teaching and lost the capacity to read anything more robust than a play (no offense to plays), I read Isabel Waidner’s second novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility , whose eponymous protagonist has just won a prestigious literary prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. And yet the trophy itself eludes him: neon... See more

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The wind, the wind made people crazy.

Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up

In the mid-twentieth century, developers might have taken on shoeshines and newspaper stands as amenity-oriented tenants. Today, they are more likely to seek out gourmet coffee shops, bookstores, restaurants, and cafés. It isn’t unusual for developers to offer such tenants leases with reduced rent, or no rent at all. In some cases, the tenants pay ... See more

Anna Wiener • When Baking and Real Estate Collide

Aging

New York City

Emily Van Tassel • 3 cards

He cuts off a bimbo box—a family minivan—veers past the Buy ’n’ Fly that is next door, and pulls into CosaNostra Pizza #3569. Those big fat contact patches complain, squeal a little bit, but they hold on to the patented Fairlanes, Inc. high-traction pavement and guide him into the chute. No other Deliverators are waiting in the chute. That is good,

Neal Stephenson • Snow Crash: A Novel

Guerrero turned them into a living; a daughter, Ana Natalia, branched out with her mother’s approval and opened a chain of Anitas restaurants across Los Angeles, taking with her the family’s taquitos recipes and opening Las Anitas on Olvera Street, not far from Cielito Lindo. Competitors copied those taquitos, along with Mexican restaurants across

Gustavo Arellano • Taco USA

Yet there is ample evidence of name changing: thousands of court records from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s of Jewish immigrants and their children filing petitions in New York City Civil Court in order to change their own family names.

Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Slammerkin

Emma Donoghue

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