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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Sprawl

The Sprawl

Diamond, Jason

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismArt & Popular Culture

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1566895820
ISBN13: 9781566895828
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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 clichéeacute;s 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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