Katy Rossing

Smothered: American Nostalgia and the Small Wisconsin Town

a simple formula - chests full of corn-fed indignation - boosterism - « It’s just a tragedy. A tragedy » - free-range childhoods - the Normal Rockwell dream - the control region for American cultural innovation - slack-jawed, Ritalin-addled, Type II diabetics - a salve to the despair of the late capitalist