The Sprawl

The Sprawl
ISBN-10
1566895820
ISBN-13
9781566895828
Series
The Sprawl
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2020-08-11
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Author
Jason Diamond

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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  • The Sprawl
    • 2020-08-25
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