Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer and editor whose essays, reportage, and narrative nonfiction have been featured in LitHub, Guernica, New Orleans Review, Creative Nonfiction's True Story, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at the City College of New York and juggles whenever he can.

Acknowledgments  xi
1. Cirque du Covid  1
2. The Three-Body Problem  9
3. La Strata  19
4. Historical Arcs  31
5. Isla Vista  44
6. 441  60
7. Makeup  65
8. Cascade  74
9. Lodi  90
10. Improvising  100
11. Mardi Gras World  103
12. Light-Hearted Humans  114
13. Cirque du Kabul  124
References  133

Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer and editor whose essays, reportage, and narrative nonfiction have been featured in LitHub, Guernica, New Orleans Review, Creative Nonfiction's True Story, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at the City College of New York and juggles whenever he can.