This issue shares stories from around the world and how they all intersect with Tacoma. In Hard Copy 23, you’ll learn about carrying on traditions as a Vietnamese American in Tacoma. You’ll dive deep into existentialism with the West Coast’s foremost Richard Brautigan impersonator. You’ll read about the end of the shipbuilding era in the Port of Tacoma. And you’ll get an inside look at the unsung heroes of the death care industry.

Here’s everything you’ll find in HC23:
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• In The Shape of an Offering
• The City Between
• Messy, Isn’t It?
• Last Launch
• Son of Palestine
• From Baghdad to Tacoma: An Immigrant Story
• Lived Experience and Legislature
• Last Responders—Guardians of the Grim
• Hard Knocks Part VI
• The Gull and The Star or Nature Horks Down a Piece of Itself
• Jeremy Gregory is a Living Mural

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Hard Copy 23 also comes with an 11×14 print by local artist, Jeremy Gregory!