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A Murder in Berlin

by Susanna Forrest March 23, 2023March 27, 2023

Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.

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Living in New York’s Unloved Neighborhood

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 16, 2021October 19, 2022

“But the neighborhood used to feel to me like a rough part of a softer place, and nowadays the roughness feels more general, and this makes it harder to cheer for a neighborhood that is so loud and dirty and uninterested in or unfit for human life.”

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Lightning, Struck: How an Atlanta Neighborhood Died on the Altar of Super Bowl Dreams

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning, in Atlanta’s west side, was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by the residents that were displaced, compiles the stories and memories of a long-gone neighborhood.

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