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Call for Papers: From Decay to Deterioration: Questioning the Aesthetics of Abandonment

I’m working on putting together a panel for the 2011 American Studies Association conference. The Call for Papers is below. The decay of the built environment has become a subject more of aesthetic fascination than of fear for many twenty-first-century Americans. Real communities such as…

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What’s In My Holiday Bookbag

Inspired by Adam Golub’s Forbes blog post about choosing holiday books, here’s what I’m packing for this holiday trip northwards and home. As you may be able to tell by the sheer weight of the books listed, we are driving from Texas to Ohio and…

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Drowning in Toys

Sotheby’s, in New York, auctioned off Malcolm Forbes’ toy collection today. I heard about it through a Margot Adler story on NPR, which filled me in on the history of this giant conglomeration of nineteenth and early twentieth-c playthings. Forbes was the kind of man…

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