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Silver Spaceships
Push open the high school doors during lunch hour and breathe in the salty-sweet air of Burger King and Taco Bell and Starbucks, the delicious temptations of the franchised suburbs. Behind you, forever behind you, the cafeteria food is as appetizing
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YI SHUN LAI on R. Eric Thomas
from “There’s Never Any Trouble Here in Bubbleland” Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America (Ballantine Books, 2020) This excerpt begins a solid page into a 15-page essay. The opening anecdote, related to Lassie, has completely disarmed me,
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SEAN PRENTISS on Steve Coughlin
from “The Next Thirty-Two Years” Driving at Twilight (Main Street Rag, 2018) This speculative essay about the author’s father’s work begins far from where readers might expect a speculative essay to begin. Rather than being overly poetic, it begins w

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