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No. 7 ~ The City in the Age of InformationBUY ISSUE
A gimlet stare at what twentieth-century capitalism has done for the American metropolis. Keith White reads city lifestyle magazines. Paul Lukas pays a visit to Times Square, then a retail wasteland. Naomi Klein hangs out at an online café. Maura Mahoney reads Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and finds it depicts Savannah, Georgia, as a Southern Gothic theme park. David Mulcahey reflects on the “Screw Capital of the World”: Rockford, Illinois. Kim Phillips-Fein regrets how lotteries bilk the poor, and Stephen Duncombe rankles at the way cities police them. Plus: dialect fiction by Irvine Welsh. Produced in Chicago in June 1995.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- Twentieth Century Lite Thomas Frank
- A Machine for Forgetting Thomas Frank
- Local Color™ Maura Mahoney
- Carter’s March Dan Bischoff
- Ghosts Steve Healey
- Dirty Talk Daniel Harris
- Screw Capital of the World David Mulcahey
- Revolt of the Nice Tom Vanderbilt
- Quality of Whose Life? Stephen Duncombe
- Just Deserts Naomi Klein
- Post-Urban, Post-Industrial, but Never Post-Elite Edward Castleton
- Fire Sale Robert Fiore
- Lotteryville, USA Kim Phillips-Fein
- Sweet Portable Lifestyle Keith White
- Forty-Two Pickup Paul Lukas
Stories
- Epic Freight David Berman
- Then They Say You’re Drunk Tibor Fischer
- Why I Watch Love Connection Instead of Taking Prozac Janice Eidus
- Disnae Matter Irvine Welsh