The Sprawl
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The Sprawl

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The Sprawl

About this book

From garage rock to Greta Gerwig, Jason Diamond asks us to reconsider the creative potential of the American suburb as he leads us down the cul-de-sac and out again.

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: We Were Promised Hoverboards
  8. Chapter 2: If You Build It, He Will Come
  9. Chapter 3: Not Allowed
  10. Chapter 4: Life on Mars
  11. Chapter 5: Monsters, Mad Men, and the Mundane
  12. Chapter 6: What’s Reality, Anyway?
  13. Chapter 7: Mousepacks
  14. Chapter 8: In the Garage
  15. Chapter 9: Mondo-Condo-Shopping-Mall-Hell
  16. Chapter 10: The Battle for the Soul of Nod Road
  17. Chapter 11: Go Back to the Suburbs
  18. Notes
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Funder Acknowledgments