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[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever:

"...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018)

https://t.co/M2ya6VqPlr @PlacesJournal

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...and they are all fantastic.

Don't miss them: https://t.co/gaYwZoSq5k

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"An Unfinished Atlas"

Contributing authors to this new essay series have each chosen 1 location — intimately known or not; famous or minor; historical or contemporary — that will, through their research and recollection, be added to the national typology of place & community...

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The first round of the series, which is being supported by @MellonFdn, will comprise two dozen essays by scholars, critics, essayists, and novelists of color across what's now called North America. The first 4 are by @elapostrophe, @lesbrains, @DavidTreuer and @inlandemperor...

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Consortium director @inlandemperor has contributed to @PlacesJournal’s #UnfinishedAtlas, focusing on Won Kok Restaurant in L.A.’s Chinatown

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"There’s something special about a place that becomes a hub for your community w/o being designed that way, coalescing through a slight rhyme of its flavors and textures with your own."

For "An Unfinished Atlas," @inlandemperor on Won Kok in LA Chinatown. https://t.co/vfStiFpAFL

[Karen Tongson @inlandemperor]

I know it’s been non-stop baseball on my feed, but it’s all linked to my love of Los Angeles, which I write about w/ some frequency. Here’s a new long form piece in @PlacesJournal on the hidden history one of my favorite restaurants in L.A., Won Kok https://t.co/n5mj2IsHLV

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Acclaimed author David Treuer writes about growing up on Leech Lake Reservation, and why the nearby town of Bemidji, Minnesota, a "border town," is so hard to love.

His latest in Places, for "An Unfinished Atlas."

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"Border/Town"

Surrounded by three sovereign nations, Bemidji, Minnesota, is a border town. Every place was, at one time or another, or is still, a border town. It depends on who you are and where you’re standing.

@DavidTreuer for "An Unfinished Atlas":
https://t.co/zYQrHpEBIv

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Read "Santa Maria" by @lesbrains at the link in bio.

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“Santa Maria, the place where I was born, isn’t known for much. White settlers whose pots and pans clanged in covered wagons founded the city in 1874, a fact I found disappointing,” Myriam Gurba begins in her new essay, “Santa Maria.”