A LITERARYPORTRAITOF EVERYCITY.

City Notes is a literary zine that builds one page per city. Type a name, hit the globe, or pick from the archive. A single issue appears, with a writer, a quote, a few internet voices, and six strange facts.

The non-negotiable rule: every quote traces to a real human in a real publication or thread. Wikiquote, Project Gutenberg, Google Books, a top Reddit post. Nothing is invented. If a source can't be verified, the line doesn't ship.

New cities cost tokens to generate the first time. The result is cached, so the next reader pays nothing. You can fund a draw from the creator's wallet or chip in toward a community pool.

A guidebook will tell you to visit the cathedral. A novelist will tell you what it's like to be alone there in November. Reddit will tell you the cathedral charges for the bathroom now.

Every issue triangulates three voices. Writers who lived there, or passed through, or imagined it well enough to count. The internet: three real Reddit posts from people with no PR department. Strange facts, because why not.

No itineraries. No top-ten lists. No ranking by Michelin stars. Just the city, as written by people who aren't reduced to a star rating.

Every issue is laid out for paper before it's laid out for screen. A8 to A3, riso-friendly two-color separations, no rebuilds. The same file that renders in your browser exports a print-ready PDF.

Soft-launching shortly. If you want one of your own pages printed, the page will tell you how.