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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

By Linh Dinh on May 7, 2015

Decades ago, I’d show up weekly to clean the Philadelphia apartment of a California transplant. Daughter of a Hollywood executive, Jacqueline confessed she had to…

White Living

By Linh Dinh on November 6, 2013

Outside the Gallery, Philadelphia’s low-class shopping mall, Jimbo sits in a wheelchair and begs behind a large sign, “I AM A CANCER VICTIM. I CANNOT…

Chester On The Edge

By Linh Dinh on August 6, 2013

Traveling by train to Philadelphia, going North, you will pass by Chester, Pennsylvania, a city that has been in decline for more than half a…

Postcard From The End Of America: Oakland

By Linh Dinh on May 29, 2013

Other people’s lives come fluttering to us in the tiniest fragments, and these we gather, when we bother to, into an incoherent jumble of impressions…

Postcard From The End Of America

By Linh Dinh on May 8, 2013

As every story is a meandering road, each road is also a story, or, more accurately, an infinity of stories. An abandoned trail that leads…

Virtual Living: Selling Self-Love

By Linh Dinh on May 19, 2010

Last week, the president warned a graduating class against a few gadgets and toys, iPods, iPads, Xboxes and PlayStations, where “information becomes a dis­traction, a…

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