The sprawl : reconsidering the weird American suburbs / Jason Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburban life--United States.

Suburban life.

Suburbs--United States.

Suburbs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2020]

Summary:

"For decades the suburbs have been where art happens "despite": despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. The familiar story is one of gems formed under pressure, creative transcendence fueled by suburban resentment. But what if the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties, these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

We were promised hoverboards

If you build it, he will come

Not allowed

Life on Mars

Monsters, mad men, and the mundane

What's reality, anyway?

Mousepacks

In the garage

Mondo-condo-shopping-mall-hell

The battle for the soul of Nod Road

Go back to the suburbs.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781566895828

1566895820

OCLC:

1164731692