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From Sofia to Chicago

Smarty Pants by Stephanie Bastek

Oct 3, 202524:08Arts

Boxy Moskvitch and Lada cars, pastel-green concrete tiles, derelict playgrounds, intermittent hot water: these were the markers of Izidora Angel’s childhood in 1980s Sofia. “Banana-Yellow Trabants,” her essay for our Aut...

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From Sofia to Chicago is an episode from Smarty Pants by Stephanie Bastek. Boxy Moskvitch and Lada cars, pastel-green concrete tiles, derelict playgrounds, intermittent hot water: these were the markers of Izidora Angel’s childhood in 1980s...

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Published Oct 3, 2025, 24:08 long, audio available.

From Sofia to Chicago

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