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larry-baker's picture
Feb.15.2008
Athens is and is not Iowa City
“I live in Athens, Iowa…Like all college towns, an island of art and intellect and tax supported affluence, a world safe from the crime and poverty and shameless hucksterism of the rest of America. Or so we tell ourselves. We’re different. We’re better. We live the life of the mind.” Write what you...