The Tsar of Love and Techno

by Anthony Marra

For my first year, I combed the shelves of libraries with the most recently expanded edition of Summary List of Books Excluded from Libraries and the Book Trade Network, searching for images of newly disgraced officials. This should be a librarian’s job, of course, but you can’t trust people who read that much.

They pressed together with a need that is never satisfied because we can’t trade atoms no matter how hard we thrust.

What an improbable thing it was to be alive on Earth.