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Luster Not Polish

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A newsletter and literary saboteur. Taking the roulette out of reading.

About Swati Sudarsan

Swati‘s work can be found in McSweeney's, Catapult, Denver Quarterly and more. She edits at Moot Point Magazine and lives in Oakland, CA.

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