City on Fire

by Garth Risk Hallberg

This was another thing he liked: proximity to the glamour of attainment.

in a city that made its own gravy when it rained.

When you were young, you had the resources to rebuild after each crater fate blasted in your life. Beyond a certain age, though, you could only wall off the damage and leave it there.

You know how I feel about the Yankees.” “Overdogs,”