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August 23, 2024 | Nonfiction

Fear and Loathing at the United Center

Emma Burger

It was day three of the Democratic National Convention and day 19 of my short tenure as a Chicago resident. I had the day off work, and nothing to do but get on my Hunter S. Thompson shit and poke my nose around the old DNC to do some gonzo journalism.

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August 23, 2024 | Fiction

Danny's Dog

Josh Code

I wash the semen off of my hands in the pool.

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August 22, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two

Forrest Muelrath

You will never truly know Valerie, because you will never find my son, nor hopefully want to after his trite art project that is endangering us all is laid to rest by what follows.

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August 21, 2024 | Nonfiction

Prozac Nation, Revisited

Francesca Spiegel

When I told one of my professors that in my lunch hour, I’d met with a writer named Elizabeth Wurtzel, the old man rolled his eyes:

“That book was such garbage. She tried to write a second book, and a third, but they flopped.”