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The Sprawl

By Jason Diamond

Book information

Publisher
Coffee House Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781566895828, 2020015243, 2020015244, 9781566895903, 1566895820
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
844 kB (864029 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2021-10-21 04:16:57

Description

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, 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 and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

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