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Art by tenants past and present covers the hallway walls, and the staff will recant the building’s ghost stories without demur.
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Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
If every love story is a ghost story, as David Foster Wallace wrote, those who tell the tales might consider how many of love’s ghosts are still alive.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
Against that real history, the building’s ghost stories feel more like colorful footnotes than the main plot.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Not to raze to the ground our diverse identities, our cultures, our fertile values, in service of some narrow, singular, bereft story—a ghost story, a story of glory long dead.
—Sayantani Dasgupta
february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
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Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
If every love story is a ghost story, as David Foster Wallace wrote, those who tell the tales might consider how many of love’s ghosts are still alive.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
Against that real history, the building’s ghost stories feel more like colorful footnotes than the main plot.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Not to raze to the ground our diverse identities, our cultures, our fertile values, in service of some narrow, singular, bereft story—a ghost story, a story of glory long dead.
—Sayantani Dasgupta
february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Ghost story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20story. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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