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Thessaly La Force Crazy City

here’s an out-of-print book called by the German artist Isa Genzken that is, while not impossible, still somewhat difficult to track down in this age of accessibility. First published in 2006, it sells for at least a hundred dollars on a website owned by Jeff Bezos that I refuse to use out of principle. The New York Public Library has one, but it’s located in the Art and Architecture room, which means you can’t check it out—a dicey proposition during a pandemic. Other rare- or used-book sellers don’t carry it very often. As someone who grew up with the Internet,

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