The Tsar of Love and Techno

by Anthony Marra

Next to that, picture an apartment block. Before ninety-one only party members lived there and after ninety-one only criminals. No one moved in or out.”

Hipsterdom’s a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.

Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.

Turning "I would" to "I did" is the grammar of growing up.

“The world will give you pig shit,” her mother had once told her. “The secret to a happy life is learning to accept it as pork sausage.”

Within two years, he spoke well enough to take Business English I and II, which used Donald Trump’s autobiography for a textbook. In such richly manured soil, a seed hardly needs sunlight to grow.

“You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she’d shout into it and no one would hear her. That’s Facebook.