Rebecca’s Reviews > Cities of the Dead > Status Update

Fascinating use of anecdote re: permissions to reproduce image of an Elvis stamp for the book to underscore his point.

I’m gently irritated by the overbearing academese, but admit to loving phrases like, “the suburb, that bourgeois simulacrum of heaven” (54).

Long overdue read here. This: “...a sore that festers in local memory more poisonously than history can write.” (13)