ELSEWHERE: A Missed Connection for the Ages

ELSEWHERE: A Missed Connection for the Ages August 8, 2013

It’s interesting to think about literary genres “coming of age.” Often it has to do with the arrival of a work that realizes the potential of the genre like nothing that came before it. That day has come for the genre known as Craigslist Missed Connections, where a recent post ostensibly aimed at finding the woman in the “vintage white skirt and smart red blouse” goes off the functional rails and lands in downright literary territory. Read the text over at Gawker, and then tell your loved ones you love them, because you don’t have enough time not to.


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