Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists. She teaches nonfiction writing at Northwestern University and is coeditor of Essay Press. “No-Man’s-Land” will be included in a collection of her essays forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2009.

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  February 2008: No-Man’s-Land
  Exposing the delusions and hostility of the American fear of “bad” neighborhoods, from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Chicago’s North Side.