Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Germany’s “Coal Pit” Reinvents Itself
This post was originally composed for polis and is re-posted here with their permission. “Deep in the West, where the sun is gathering dust,” bellows Herbert Grönemeyer in an ode to his home town, Bochum, “things are better, much better than you think.” Even for the bestselling German pop artist of all time, this was…