Cattle Car Complex

Thane Rosenbaum

1996

He pushed the button marked “Down.” He pushed again. The machine ignored the command. Slowly he pivoted his head back, staring up at the stainless-steel eyebrow just over the door. No movement of descending light. The numbers remained frozen, like a row of stalled traffic.

For bodily emphasis, he leaned against the panel—pressing “Down,” “Up,”…

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Thane Rosenbaum

b. 1960

Born in New York City, Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor at Fordham Law School. The literary editor of Tikkun Magazine from 1996 until 2002, Rosenbaum writes fiction that explores themes of survival, influenced by the Holocaust.

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